Free and combined amino acids in marine background atmospheric aerosols over the Eastern Mediterranean

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1003-1009

  Mandalakis, Manolis ^a,b   Apostolaki, Maria ^a   Tziaras, Thrasivoulos ^a   Polymenakou, Paraskevi ^b   Stephanou, Euripides G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Marine aerosols; Mediterranean Sea; Proteinaceous material; Water soluble organic carbon

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SUBSTANCE; AIR MASS; AIR SAMPLES; ATMOSPHERIC LEVELS; BACK TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; ELEMENTAL CARBON; FIELD CAMPAIGN; FREE AMINO ACIDS; GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGINS; MARINE AEROSOLS; MATRIX; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; METHYLENE BLUE; NANOORANGE; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PROTEINACEOUS MATERIALS; TOTAL PROTEIN CONCENTRATION; WATER-SOLUBLE ORGANIC CARBON; WIND SPEED;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIONIC SURFACTANTS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIC CARBON;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ANIONIC SURFACTANT; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; HYDROXYPROLINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; ORGANIC CARBON; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; PROTEIN; SERINE; THREONINE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE; WATER SOLUBLE ORGANIC CARBON;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR SAMPLING; AMINO ACID; CORRELATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; ORGANIC CARBON; PROTEIN; SURFACTANT; TRAJECTORY; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; WIND;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 78650970210     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.10.046     Document Type: Article

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