Measurements of the timescales for the mass transfer of water in glassy aerosol at low relative humidity and ambient temperature

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4739-4754

  Tong, H J ^a,b   Reid, J P ^a   Bones, D L ^a   Luo, B P ^c   Krieger, U K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; AMBIENT AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TIMESCALE;

EID: 79957441808     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-4739-2011     Document Type: Article

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