Limitations of the photoacoustic technique for aerosol absorption measurement at high relative humidity

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1163-1173

  Langridge, Justin M ^a,b,c   Richardson, Mathews S ^a,b   Lack, Daniel A ^a,b   Brock, Charles A ^b   Murphy, Daniel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING PARTICLES; CORRECTION PROCEDURE; COUPLED HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; HYGROSCOPIC PARTICLES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; TRANSITION REGIMES;

EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTS; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY;

AEROSOLS;

WATER;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; COOLING; EVAPORATION; HEAT; HUMIDITY; LABORATORY; MASS; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84884571562     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: 15217388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2013.827324     Document Type: Article

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