Characteristics and sources of submicron aerosols above the urban canopy (260 m) in Beijing, China, during the 2014 APEC summit

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 12879-12895

  Chen, C ^a,b   Sun, Y L ^a,b   Xu, W Q ^a   Du, W ^a,c   Zhou, L B ^a   Han, T T ^a   Wang, Q Q ^a   Fu, P Q ^a   Wang, Z F ^a   Gao, Z Q ^a,b   Zhang, Q ^d   Worsnop, D R ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; HAZE; NITRATE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SULFATE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84948409662     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-12879-2015     Document Type: Article

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