Summertime aerosol chemical composition in the Eastern Mediterranean and its sensitivity to temperature

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 164-173

  Im, Ulas ^a   Markakis, Kostas ^b   Koçak, Mustafa ^c   Gerasopoulos, Evangelos ^d   Daskalakis, Nikos ^a   Mihalopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Poupkou, Anastasia ^b   Kindap, Tayfun ^e   Unal, Alper ^e   Kanakidou, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aerosol chemical composition; Eastern Mediterranean; Megacity; Temperature change

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL COMPONENTS; AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; AEROSOL MASS; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CLOUD COVER; COARSE PARTICLES; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; FINE AEROSOLS; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; MASS RATIO; MEGACITIES; MODEL SYSTEM; ORGANIC AND ELEMENTAL CARBON; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SENSITIVITY TO TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TOTAL PARTICULATE MATTER;

COAGULATION; ORGANIC CARBON; REDUCTION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR TEMPERATURE; AMBIENT AIR; BIOGENIC EMISSION; COAGULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MEGACITY; ORGANIC CARBON; REDUCTION; SEA SALT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EASTERN EUROPE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; URBAN AREA;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

EID: 84856679237     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.12.044     Document Type: Article

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