SPLAT II: An aircraft compatible, ultra-sensitive, high precision instrument for in-situ characterization of the size and composition of fine and ultrafine particles

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 411-424

  Zelenyuk, Alla ^a   Yang, Juan ^a   Choi, Eric ^a   Imre, Dan ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Imre Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICAL PARTICLES; DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITY ANALYZERS; EFFECTIVE DENSITY; GASPHASE; HIGH PRECISION; IN-SITU CHARACTERIZATION; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; INSTRUMENT CONTROL; LARGE DATASETS; MASS SPECTRA; SHAPE FACTOR; SINGLE PARTICLE MASS SPECTROMETERS; SMALL PARTICLES; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

DRIERS (MATERIALS); FRACTAL DIMENSION; INSTRUMENTS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONOLAYERS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

MASS SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 62849084117     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: 15217388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02786820802709243     Document Type: Article

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