Mass analysis of charged aerosol particles in NLC and PMSE during the ECOMA/MASS campaign

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1213-1232

  Robertson, S ^a   Horanyi M ^a   Knappmiller, S ^a   Sternovsky, Z ^a   Holzworth, R ^b   Shimogawa, M ^b   Friedrich, M ^c   Torkar, K ^d   Gumbe, J ^e   Megner, L ^e   Baumgarten, G ^f   Latteck, R ^f   Rapp, M ^f   Hoppe, U P ^g   Hervig, M E ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^g NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^h GATS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols and particles; Atmospheric composition and structure; Cloud physics and chemistry; Ionosphere; Polar ionosphere

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; ELECTRON DENSITY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; IONOSPHERE; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 62149126450     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-27-1213-2009     Document Type: Article

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