A field-deployable, chemical ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1471-1479

  Bertram, T H ^a   Kimmel, J R ^b,c,d   Crisp, T A ^a   Ryder, O S ^a   Yatavelli, R L N ^e   Thornton, J A ^e   Cubison, M J ^c,d   Gonin, M ^c   Worsnop, D R ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^c TOFWERK AG   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FORMIC ACID; ION EXCHANGE; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PUMPING; TRACE GAS;

EID: 84857769859     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-4-1471-2011     Document Type: Article

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