13-month climatology of the aerosol hygroscopicity at the free tropospheric site Jungfraujoch (3580 m a.s.l.)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 10717-10732

  Kammermann, L ^a   Gysel, M ^a   Weingartner, E ^a   Baltensperger, U ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; HYGROSCOPICITY; PARTICLE SIZE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TROPOSPHERE;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; JUNGFRAUJOCH; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78649273521     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-10717-2010     Document Type: Article

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