Atmospheric aerosols in suburb of Prague: The dynamics of particle size distributions

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 539-552

  Rimnácová, Daniela ^a   Ždímal, Vladimír ^a   Schwarz, Jaroslav ^a   Smolík, Jirí ^a   Rimnác, Martin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Atmospheric aerosols; Atmospheric nucleation; Number size distribution

Indexed keywords

AITKEN SIZE; ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; AVERAGE VALUES; CONTINUOUS SAMPLING; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; FORMATION RATES; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; NUMBER SIZE DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; PARTICLE NUMBER SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SIZE RANGES; TRAFFIC-RELATED;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; NUCLEATION; POLLUTION; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SIZE DETERMINATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FORMATION MECHANISM; KINETICS; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SAMPLING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

CZECH REPUBLIC; PRAGUE;

EID: 79960126984     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.10.024     Document Type: Article

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