Assessing Single Particle Soot Photometer and Integrating Sphere/Integrating Sandwich Spectrophotometer measurement techniques for quantifying black carbon concentration in snow

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2581-2592

  Schwarz, J P ^a,b   Doherty, S J ^c   Li, F ^d   Ruggiero, S T ^d   Tanner, C E ^d   Perring, A E ^a,b   Gao, R S ^a   Fahey, D W ^a,b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PARTICULATE MATTER; SNOW; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874493377     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-5-2581-2012     Document Type: Article

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