Inorganic and black carbon aerosol concentrations at a high altitude on Mt Kenya

X-Ray Spectrometry

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-36

  Gatari, Michael J ^a,b   Pettersson, Jan B C ^b   Kimani, Wilson ^c   Boman, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c KENYA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CARBON; DUST;

AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; AEROSOL SAMPLES; BIOMASS-BURNING; BLACK CARBON; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; COARSE FRACTIONS; FINE FRACTION; INORGANIC CARBON; MASS CONCENTRATION; PARTICULATE MASS;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 59849125947     PISSN: 00498246     EISSN: 10974539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/xrs.1094     Document Type: Article

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