On the interpretation of the loading correction of the aethalometer

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4415-4427

  Virkkula, A ^a,b,c   Chi, X ^a   Ding, A ^a   Shen, Y ^a   Nie, W ^a,b   Qi, X ^a   Zheng, L ^a   Huang, X ^a   Xie, Y ^a   Wang, J ^a   Petaja T ^b   Kulmala, M ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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EID: 84945310141     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-4415-2015     Document Type: Article

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