Radiocarbon analysis of elemental and organic carbon in Switzerland during winter-smog episodes from 2008 to 2012-Part 1: Source apportionment and spatial variability

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 13551-13570

  Zotter, P ^a   Ciobanu, V G ^a,h   Zhang, Y L ^a,b,i   El Haddad, I ^a   Macchia, M ^c   Daellenbach, K R ^a   Salazar, G A ^b   Huang, R J ^a   Wacker, L ^d   Hueglin, C ^e   Piazzalunga, A ^f   Fermo, P ^g   Schwikowski, M ^a,b   Baltensperger, U ^a   Szidat, S ^b   Prevot A S H ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SMOG; SPATIAL VARIATION; WINTER;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84919694392     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-13551-2014     Document Type: Article

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