Can positive matrix factorization help to understand patterns of organic trace gases at the continental Global Atmosphere Watch site Hohenpeissenberg?

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1221-1236

  Leuchner, M ^a   Gubo, S ^a   Schunk, C ^a   Wastl, C ^a,d   Kirchner, M ^b   Menzel, A ^a   Plass Dulmer C ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COMBUSTION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NONMETHANE HYDROCARBON; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TRACE GAS;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; HOHENPEISSENBERG;

EID: 84922548884     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-1221-2015     Document Type: Article

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