A compact PTR-ToF-MS instrument for airborne measurements of volatile organic compounds at high spatiotemporal resolution

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3763-3772

  Muller M ^a   Mikoviny, T ^b,c,e   Feil, S ^d   Haidacher, S ^d   Hanel, G ^d   Hartungen, E ^d   Jordan, A ^d   Mark L ^d   Mutschlechner, P ^d   Schottkowsky, R ^d   Sulzer, P ^d   Crawford, J H ^b   Wisthaler, A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Oak Ridge Universities   (United States)

^d IONICON Analytik GmbH   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; AMMONIA; ANALYTICAL METHOD; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODEL VALIDATION; NEW RECORD; PLUME; RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 84910682102     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-7-3763-2014     Document Type: Article

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