Estimation of aerosol size distribution from ion mobility spectra using the KL model

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 6783-6798

  Siingh, Devendraa ^a,b   Gopalakrishnan, V ^a   Gautam, A S ^a   Singh, R P ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; IONS; PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ACCUMULATION MODES; AERODYNAMIC PARTICLE SIZER; AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; ION MOBILITY; ION MOBILITY SPECTRA; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SCANNING MOBILITY PARTICLE SIZER; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETERS;

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSOL; ELEMENT MOBILITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; IONIC COMPOSITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MAITRI;

EID: 82055203373     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.512945     Document Type: Article

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