Characterisation of Amazon Basin aerosols at the individual particle level by X-ray microanalytical techniques

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 39, 2007, Pages 9217-9230

  Worobiec, Anna ^a   Szalóki, Imre ^b   Osán, Janos ^c   Maenhaut, Willy ^d   Anna Stefaniak, Elzbieta ^a   Van Grieken, Rene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c KFKI ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amazon Basin; Cluster analysis; EPMA; Individual aerosol particles; Principal component analysis; Saharan dust

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE NUMBER; AEROSOL PARTICLES; AEROSOL SAMPLES; AMAZON BASIN; AMAZONIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOGENIC EMISSION; BIOMASS-BURNING; CHARACTERISATION; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ELECTRON PROBE X RAY MICROANALYSIS; EPMA; FIELD WORKS; GASEOUS POLLUTANTS; INDIVIDUAL AEROSOL PARTICLES; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; LARGE-SCALE BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE EXPERIMENTS; MARINE PARTICLES; MICRO-ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; ORGANIC PART; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SAHARAN DUST; SEA SALTS; SIZE FRACTION; SODIUM NITRATES; SOIL DUST;

AGGLOMERATION; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BIOMASS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DUST; FOG; MARINE POLLUTION; MICROANALYSIS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOILS; SPACE PROBES;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

CARBON;

AEROSOL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA SALT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; DUST; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FRACTIONATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPORT MEDIUM; X RAY MICROANALYSIS;

AMAZON BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 45249111436     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.07.056     Document Type: Article

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