Fluorescent water-soluble organic aerosols in the High Arctic atmosphere

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Fu, Pingqing ^a,b   Kawamura, Kimitaka ^b   Chen, Jing ^c,d   Qin, Mingyue ^a   Ren, Lujie ^a   Sun, Yele ^a   Wang, Zifa ^a   Barrie, Leonard A ^e   Tachibana, Eri ^b   Ding, Aijun ^f   Yamashita, Youhei ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84929093941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09845     Document Type: Article

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