Atmospheric nucleation: Highlights of the EUCAARI project and future directions

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 10829-10848

  Kerminen, V M ^a,b   Petaja T ^a   Manninen, H E ^a   Paasonen, P ^a   Nieminen, T ^a   Sipila M ^a   Junninen, H ^a   Ehn, M ^a   Gagne S ^a   Laakso, L ^a   Riipinen, I ^a   Vehkamaki H ^a   Kurten, T ^a   Ortega, I K ^a   Dal Maso, M ^a,f   Brus, D ^b   Hyvarinen A ^b   Lihavainen, H ^b   Leppa J ^b   Lehtinen, K E J ^b,k   Mirme, A ^c   Mirme, S ^c   Horrak U ^c   Berndt, T ^d   Stratmann, F ^d   Birmili, W ^d   Wiedensohler, A ^d   Metzger, A ^e   Dommen, J ^e   Baltensperger, U ^e   Kiendler Scharr, A ^f   Mentel, T F ^f   Wildt, J ^f   Winkler, P M ^g   Wagner, P E ^g   Petzold, A ^h   Minikin, A ^h   Plass Dulmer C ⁱ   Poschl U ^j   Laaksonen, A ^a,k   Kulmala, M ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^h NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

ⁱ CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j IONICON Analytik GmbH   (Austria)

^k NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARAMETERIZATION; SULFATE; SULFURIC ACID; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 78649269915     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-10829-2010     Document Type: Article

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