Sources and atmospheric processing of organic aerosol in the Mediterranean: Insights from aerosol mass spectrometer factor analysis

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 12499-12515

  Hildebrandt, L ^a   Kostenidou, E ^b   Lanz, V A ^c   Prevot, A S H ^c   Baltensperger, U ^c   Mihalopoulos, N ^b,d   Laaksonen, A ^e,f   Donahue, N M ^a   Pandis, S N ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^f FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; COASTAL ZONE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CRETE; GREECE;

EID: 83755182888     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-12499-2011     Document Type: Article

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