Long-term field measurements of charged and neutral clusters using Neutral cluster and Air Ion Spectrometer (NAIS)

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 591-605

  Manninen, Hanna E ^a   Petäjä, Tuukka ^a   Asmi, Eija ^a,c   Riipinen, Nona ^a   Nieminen, Tuomo ^a   Mikkilä, Jyri ^a   Hõrrak, Urmas ^b   Mirme, Aadu ^b   Mirme, Sander ^b   Laakso, Lauri ^a   Kerminen, Veli Matti ^c   Kulmala, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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