Refractory black carbon mass concentrations in snow and ice: Method evaluation and inter-comparison with elemental carbon measurement

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3307-3324

  Lim, S ^a,b   Fain X ^a,b   Zanatta, M ^a,b,c   Cozic, J ^a,b   Jaffrezo, J L ^a,b   Ginot, P ^a,b,d   Laj, P ^a,b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BLACK CARBON; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; ICE COVER; MOUNTAIN REGION; PHOTOMETER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84908046549     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-7-3307-2014     Document Type: Article

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