Improved measurement of carbonaceous aerosol: Evaluation of the sampling artifacts and inter-comparison of the thermal-optical analysis methods

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 8533-8548

  Cheng, Y ^a   He, K B ^a   Duan, F K ^a   Zheng, M ^b   Ma, Y L ^a   Tan, J H ^a   Du, Z Y ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTIFACT; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ORGANIC CARBON; QUARTZ; SAMPLING;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77956544821     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-8533-2010     Document Type: Article

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