Quantification of the volatility of secondary organic compounds in ultrafine particles during nucleation events

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 9019-9036

  Pierce, J R ^a   Riipinen, I ^b,c,d   Kulmala, M ^b   Ehn, M ^b,f   Petaja T ^b   Junninen, H ^b   Worsnop, D R ^b,e   Donahue, N M ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^e AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^f FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; VAPOR PRESSURE;

CANADA; EGBERT; FINLAND; HYYTIALA; LANSI SUOMEN; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 80052490480     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-9019-2011     Document Type: Article

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