New insights into PM2.5 chemical composition and sources in two major cities in China during extreme haze events using aerosol mass spectrometry

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3207-3225

  Elser, Miriam ^a   Huang, Ru Jin ^a,b,e   Wolf, Robert ^a   Slowik, Jay G ^a   Wang, Qiyuan ^b   Canonaco, Francesco ^a   Li, Guohui ^b   Bozzetti, Carlo ^a   Daellenbach, Kaspar R ^a   Huang, Yu ^b   Zhang, Renjian ^c   Li, Zhengqiang ^d   Cao, Junji ^b   Baltensperger, Urs ^a   El Haddad, Imad ^a   André, Prévôt ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e XIAMEN HUAXIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EXTREME EVENT; HAZE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICULATE MATTER;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; SHAANXI; XIAN;

EID: 84960864418     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-3207-2016     Document Type: Article

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