Contribution of ion-induced nucleation to new particle formation: Methodology and its application to atmospheric observations in Boulder, Colorado

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 111, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Iida, Kenjiro ^a   Stolzenburg, Mark ^a   McMurry, Peter ^a   Dunn, Matthew J ^b   Smith, James N ^b   Eisele, Fred ^b   Keady, Pat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Quant Technologies LLC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEATION;

NUCLEATION; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

BOULDER; COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847624750     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007167     Document Type: Article

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