Organic Aerosols

Environmental Chemistry of Aerosols

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 91-115

  Lazaridis, Mihalis ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biological aerosols; Carbonaceous aerosols; Condensable organic compounds (COCs); Modelling biogenic aerosol formation; Organic compounds source apportionment; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Secondary organic aerosol (SOA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889398005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305388.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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