Modelling the optical properties of fresh biomass burning aerosol produced in a smoke chamber: Results from the EFEU campaign

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3427-3439

  Hungershoefer, K ^a,i   Zeromskiene, K ^b,d   Iinuma, Y ^b   Helas, G ^c   Trentmann, J ^e   Trautmann, T ^a,f   Parmar, R S ^c,h   Wiedensohler, A ^b   Andreae, M O ^c   Schmid, O ^c,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^g INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^h IIMT Engineering College   (India)

ⁱ CNRS   (France)

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EID: 67349100109     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-8-3427-2008     Document Type: Article

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