Simulating the formation of carbonaceous aerosol in a European Megacity (Paris) during the MEGAPOLI summer and winter campaigns

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 3727-3741

  Fountoukis, Christos ^a   Megaritis, Athanasios G ^b   Skyllakou, Ksakousti ^b   Charalampidis, Panagiotis E ^a,c   Van Der Gon, Hugo A C Denier ^d   Crippa, Monica ^e,f   Prévôt, André S H ^f   Fachinger, Friederike ^g   Wiedensohler, Alfred ^h   Pilinis, Christodoulos ^c   Pandis, Spyros N ^a,b,i  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^f PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^h LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

ⁱ CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL FORMATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BLACK CARBON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEGACITY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SUMMER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WINTER;

FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; PARIS; VILLE DE PARIS;

EID: 84962803662     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-3727-2016     Document Type: Article

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