Measurement of the nucleation of atmospheric aerosol particles

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1651-1667

  Kulmala, Markku ^a   Petäjä, Tuukka ^a   Nieminen, Tuomo ^a   Sipilä, Mikko ^a   Manninen, Hanna E ^a   Lehtipalo, Katrianne ^a   Dal Maso, Miikka ^a   Aalto, Pasi P ^a   Junninen, Heikki ^a   Paasonen, Pauli ^a   Riipinen, Ilona ^b   Lehtinen, Kari E J ^c   Laaksonen, Ari ^c,d   Kerminen, Veli Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE;

AIR ION SPECTROMETER; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL PARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEATION; CONDENSATION PARTICLE COUNTER; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICES; DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITY PARTICLE SIZER; INSTRUMENTATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MEASUREMENT; NEW PARTICLE FORMATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84866072109     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.091     Document Type: Article

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