Development of a regional chemical transport model with size-resolved aerosol microphysics and its application on aerosol number concentration simulation over China

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 83-87

  Chen, Xueshun ^a,b   Wang, Zifa ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Yu, Fangqun ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 84920647786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2014-017     Document Type: Article

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