Observations of the aerosol particle number concentration in the marine boundary layer over the south-eastern Baltic Sea

Oceanologia

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 573-597

  Byčenkiene, Steigvile ^a   Ulevicius, Vidmantas ^a   Prokopčiuk, Nina ^a   Jasinevičiene, Dalia ^a  

^a CENTER FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Aerosol number concentration; Coastal site; Principal component analysis; Source apportionment; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA SALT; TRANSFORM; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BALTIC SEA; LITHUANIA; PREILA;

EID: 84881220898     PISSN: 00783234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5697/oc.55-3.573     Document Type: Article

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