Technical Note: Measuring condensation sink and ion sink of atmospheric aerosols with the electrical low pressure impactor (ELPI)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1361-1368

  Kuuluvainen, H ^a   Kannosto, J ^a   Virtanen, A ^a   Masigna J M ^a   Kulmala, M ^b   Aalto, P ^b   Keskinen, J ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC SINK; CALIBRATION; CONDENSATION; ION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ETELA SUOMEN; FINLAND;

EID: 76349125774     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-1361-2010     Document Type: Article

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