A wide-range multi-channel air ion spectrometer

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 247-264

  Mirme, Aadu ^a   Tamm, Eduard ^a   Mordas, Genrik ^b   Vana, Marko ^a,b   Uin, Janek ^a   Mirme, Sander ^a   Bernotas, Toomas ^a   Laakso, Lauri ^b   Hirsikko, Anne ^b   Kulmala, Markku ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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