Chemical characterisation of atmospheric aerosols during a 2007 summer field campaign at Brasschaat, Belgium: Sources and source processes of biogenic secondary organic aerosol

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-138

  Gomez Gonzalez Y ^a   Wang, W ^b   Vermeylen, R ^a   Chi, X ^b,d   Neirynck, J ^c   Janssens, I A ^a   Maenhaut, W ^b   Claeys, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ANTWERP [BELGIUM]; BELGIUM; BRASSCHAAT;

EID: 84862949155     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-125-2012     Document Type: Article

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