Applicability of condensation particle counters to measure atmospheric clusters

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 4049-4060

  Sipila M ^a,e   Lehtipalo, K ^a   Kulmala, M ^a   Petaja T ^a,f   Junninen, H ^a   Aalto, P P ^a   Manninen, H E ^a   Kyro E M ^a   Asmi, E ^a   Riipinen, I ^a   Curtius, J ^b,g   Kurten A ^c,h   Borrmann, S ^b,c   O'Dowd, C D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^e HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONDENSATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

EID: 48249152161     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-8-4049-2008     Document Type: Article

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