Relating hygroscopicity and composition of organic aerosol particulate matter

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1155-1165

  Duplissy, J ^a,h   De Carlo, P F ^a,c   Dommen, J ^a   Alfarra, M R ^b   Metzger, A ^a,i   Barmpadimos, I ^a   Prevot, A S H ^a   Weingartner, E ^a   Tritscher, T ^a   Gysel, M ^a   Aiken, A C ^c,j   Jimenez, J L ^c   Canagaratna, M R ^d   Worsnop, D R ^d,e   Collins, D R ^f   Tomlinson, J ^f,g   Baltensperger, U ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h CERN   (Switzerland)

ⁱ GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYGROSCOPICITY; IONIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SMOG;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; FEDERAL DISTRICT [MEXICO]; JUNGFRAUJOCH; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MEXICO CITY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79951477575     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-1155-2011     Document Type: Article

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