Wintertime Arctic Ocean sea water properties and primary marine aerosol concentrations

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 10405-10421

  Zabori J ^a   Krejci, R ^a,d   Ekman, A M L ^a   Martensson E M ^a,b   Strom J ^a   De Leeuw, G ^c,d,e   Nilsson, E D ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Finnish Meteorologic Institute   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PARTICLE SIZE; SEAWATER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84877872524     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-10405-2012     Document Type: Article

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