'How to find bananas in the atmospheric aerosol': New approach for analyzing atmospheric nucleation and growth events

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 273-282

  Heintzenberg, Jost ^a   Wehner, Birgit ^a   Birmili, Wolfram ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33947424868     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2007.00249.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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