Night-time enhanced atmospheric ion concentrations in the marine boundary layer

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3627-3638

  Kalivitis, N ^a,c,d   Stavroulas, I ^a   Bougiatioti, A ^a   Kouvarakis, G ^a   Gagne S ^b,e,f   Manninen, H E ^b   Kulmala, M ^b   Mihalopoulos, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Navarino Environmental Observatory NEO   (Greece)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ANNUAL CYCLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COAGULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONDENSATION; CORRELATION; ION; NUCLEATION;

EID: 84859918260     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-3627-2012     Document Type: Review

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