High aerosol acidity despite declining atmospheric sulfate concentrations over the past 15 years

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 282-285

  Weber, Rodney J ^a   Guo, Hongyu ^a   Russell, Armistead G ^b   Nenes, Athanasios ^a,b,c,d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AMMONIUM NITRATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SULFATE; THERMODYNAMICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84963584397     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2665     Document Type: Article

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