Strategies to enhance the interpretation of single-particle ambient aerosol data

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 584-595

  Rehbein, Peter J G ^a   Jeong, Cheol Heon ^a   Mcguire, Maygan L ^a   Evans, Greg J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RESONANCE THEORY; AEROSOL PARTICLES; AEROSOL TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETERS; AMBIENT AEROSOLS; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYSIS METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL PARTICLES; CHEMICAL COMPLEXITY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SETS; GREAT LAKES; MASS SPECTRA; NEW INSTRUMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; POTENTIAL SOURCE CONTRIBUTION FUNCTION; SEASONAL TRENDS; SINGLE-PARTICLE; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION; SOURCE REGION; STANDARD REFERENCE MATERIAL; TEMPORAL PATTERN;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RATING;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84857781745     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: 15217388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2011.650334     Document Type: Article

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