Technical Note: The application of an improved gas and aerosol collector for ambient air pollutants in China

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 10519-10533

  Dong, H B ^a,b,c   Zeng, L M ^b   Hu, M ^b   Yu, Y S ^b   Zhang, Y H ^b   Slanina, J ^b   Zheng, M ^b   Wang, Z F ^a   Jansen, R ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHLORIDE; INSTRUMENTATION; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; NITRATE; SULFATE;

CHINA;

EID: 84874706849     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-10519-2012     Document Type: Article

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