A laboratory investigation of the relative humidity dependence of light extinction by organic compounds from lignin combustion

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Beaver, Melinda R ^a   Garland, Rebecca M ^a,c   Hasenkopf, Christa A ^a   Baynard, Tahllee ^a,b   Ravishankara, A R ^a,b   Tolbert, Margaret A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical properties; biomass burning; relative humidity

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AEROSOL EXTINCTION SPECTROSCOPY; AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES; BIOMASS-BURNING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; WATER-SOLUBLE ORGANICS;

LIGHT EXTINCTION;

EID: 62749112812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/045003     Document Type: Article

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