Determination of water and alkaline extractable atmospheric humic-like substances with the TU Vienna HULIS analyzer in samples from six background sites in Europe

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Feczko, T ^a,b,c   Puxbaum, Hans ^a   Kasper Giebl, Anne ^a   Handler, M ^a   Limbeck, A ^a   Gelencsér, András ^c   Pio, Casimiro A ^d   Preunkert, Susanne ^e   Legrand, Michel ^e  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Biological Nanochemistry Research Group   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ORGANIC CARBON; SEPARATION;

ACIDITY; AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FRACTIONATION; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; ORGANIC CARBON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; WINTER;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUSTRIA; AVEIRO [PORTUGAL]; AZORES; BACS-KISKUN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; HUNGARY; K-PUSZTA; MACARONESIA; PORTUGAL; SONNBLICK; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 38949125110     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD008331     Document Type: Article

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