Characterization of the mass-dependent transmission efficiency of a CIMS

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1449-1460

  Heinritzi, Martin ^a   Simon, Mario ^a   Steiner, Gerhard ^b,c   Wagner, Andrea C ^a   Kürten, Andreas ^a   Hansel, Armin ^c,d   Curtius, Joachim ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d IONICON Analytik GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERFACE; ION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANOFLUORINE; SPECTROMETER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 84964374797     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-1449-2016     Document Type: Article

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