Characterisation of bioaerosol emissions from a Colorado pine forest: Results from the beachon-rombas experiment

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 8559-8578

  Crawford, I ^a   Robinson, N H ^b   Flynn, M J ^a   Foot, V E ^c   Gallagher, M W ^a   Huffman, J A ^d   Stanley, W R ^e   Kaye, P H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS FOREST; PARAMETERIZATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84906657159     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-8559-2014     Document Type: Article

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