On the mode-segregated aerosol particle number concentration load: Contributions of primary and secondary particles in Hyytiälä and Nanjing

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 21, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 319-331

  Kulmala, Markku ^a   Luoma, Krista ^a   Virkkula, Aki ^b,c   Petäjä, Tuukka ^a,b   Paasonen, Pauli ^a   Kerminen, Veli Matti ^a   Nie, Wei ^a,b,c   Qi, Ximeng ^b,c   Shen, Yicheng ^b,c   Chi, Xuguang ^b,c   Ding, Aijun ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84970978713     PISSN: 12396095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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