Particle water and pH in the eastern Mediterranean: Source variability and implications for nutrient availability

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 4579-4591

  Bougiatioti, Aikaterini ^a,b   Nikolaou, Panayiota ^a   Stavroulas, Iasonas ^a   Kouvarakis, Giorgos ^a   Weber, Rodney ^b   Nenes, Athanasios ^b,c,d   Kanakidou, Maria ^a   Mihalopoulos, Nikolaos ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PH; POINT SOURCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; FINOKALIA; GREECE; LASITHI;

EID: 84966440328     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-4579-2016     Document Type: Article

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