Annual and interannual variation in boreal forest aerosol particle number and volume concentration and their connection to particle formation

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 495-508

  Dal Maso, Mikka ^a,d   Hyvärinen, Antti ^b   Komppula, Mika ^b   Tunved, Peter ^c   Kerminen, Veli Matti ^b   Lihavainen, Heikki ^b   Viisanen, Yrjö ^b   Hansson, Hans Christen ^b   Kulmala, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC SINK; BOREAL FOREST; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONDENSATION; GROWTH RATE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOLUME;

ASPVRETEN; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; HYYTIALA; LANSI SUOMEN; LAPLAND; LAPPI [FINLAND]; NORTHERN EUROPE; PALLAS; SCANDINAVIA; SODERMANLAND; STOCKHOLM [SWEDEN]; SWEDEN; UTO;

EID: 50649101484     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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