A year-long comparison of particle formation events at paired urban and rural locations

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 447-454

  Jun, Yun Seok ^a   Jeong, Cheol Heon ^a   Sabaliauskas, Kelly ^a   Leaitch, W Richard ^b   Evans, Greg J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Condensation sink; Particle formation; Particle nucleation and growth; Traffic emissions; Ultrafine particles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903316242     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2014.052     Document Type: Article

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