New particle formation and condensational growth in a large indoor space

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2736-2749

  Hovorka, Jan ^a   Braniš, Martin ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aerosol nucleation; Aerosol residence time; Air exchange rate; Micro scale

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL NUCLEATION; AEROSOL PARTICLES; AIR EXCHANGE RATE; AIR EXCHANGE RATES; CONDENSATIONAL GROWTH; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INDOOR SPACE; MICRO-SCALE; MICRO-SCALES; NEW PARTICLE FORMATION; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; OPEN ATMOSPHERE; OZONE CONCENTRATION; RESIDENCE TIME; URBAN ATMOSPHERES; WHOLE PROCESS; WORK SHIFTS;

AIR; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; NUCLEATION; OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

OZONE;

AEROSOL FORMATION; AIR QUALITY; AIRFLOW; CONDENSATION; INDOOR AIR; NUCLEATION; OZONE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RESIDENCE TIME;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CZECH REPUBLIC; GROWTH RATE; HUMIDITY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA;

CZECH REPUBLIC; PRAGUE;

EID: 79954581533     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.02.039     Document Type: Article

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