Homogeneous nucleation of sulfuric acid and water mixture: Experimental setup and first results

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2631-2641

  Brus, D ^a,b   Hyvarinen A P ^b   Viisanen, Y ^b   Kulmala, M ^c   Lihavainen, H ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; PREDICTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SULFURIC ACID; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77949670465     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-2631-2010     Document Type: Article

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