Processing of biomass-burning aerosol in the eastern Mediterranean during summertime

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 4793-4807

  Bougiatioti, A ^a,b   Stavroulas, I ^c   Kostenidou, E ^d   Zarmpas, P ^c   Theodosi, C ^c   Kouvarakis, G ^c   Canonaco, F ^e   Prevot A S H ^e   Nenes, A ^a,d,f   Pandis, S N ^d,g   Mihalopoulos, N ^c,d,h  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^g CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR MASS; BIOMASS BURNING; BLACK CARBON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXYGENATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SUMMER; WILDFIRE;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; ANDROS [CYCLADES]; CENTRAL GREECE; CHIOS; CRETE [GREECE]; CYCLADES; EUBOEA; FINOKALIA; GREECE; LASITHI; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); NORTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 84900793557     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-4793-2014     Document Type: Article

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