Assessment and application of clustering techniques to atmospheric particle number size distribution for the purpose of source apportionment

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 11883-11892

  Salimi, F ^a   Ristovski, Z ^a   Mazaheri, M ^a   Laiman, R ^a   Crilley, L R ^a,b   He, C ^a   Clifford, S ^a   Morawska, L ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84961291658     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-11883-2014     Document Type: Article

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