Ion-induced nucleation of pure biogenic particles

Nature

Volumn 533, Issue 7604, 2016, Pages 521-526

  Kirkby, Jasper ^a,b   Duplissy, Jonathan ^c   Sengupta, Kamalika ^d   Frege, Carla ^e   Gordon, Hamish ^b   Williamson, Christina ^a,v   Heinritzi, Martin ^a,f   Simon, Mario ^a   Yan, Chao ^c   Almeida, Joaõ ^a,b   Trostl, Jasmin ^e   Nieminen, Tuomo ^c   Ortega, Ismael K ^g   Wagner, Robert ^c   Adamov, Alexey ^c   Amorim, Antonio ^h   Bernhammer, Anne Kathrin ^f,i   Bianchi, Federico ^e,j   Breitenlechner, Martin ^f,i   Brilke, Sophia ^a   Chen, Xuemeng ^c   Craven, Jill ^k   Dias, Antonio ^b   Ehrhart, Sebastian ^a,b   Flagan, Richard C ^k   Franchin, Alessandro ^c   Fuchs, Claudia ^e   Guida, Roberto ^b   Hakala, Jani ^c   Hoyle, Christopher R ^e,l   Jokinen, Tuija ^c   Junninen, Heikki ^c   Kangasluoma, Juha ^c   Kim, Jaeseok ^m,w   Krapf, Manuel ^e   Kurten, Andreas ^a   Laaksonen, Ari ^m,n   Lehtipalo, Katrianne ^c,e   Makhmutov, Vladimir ^o   Mathot, Serge ^b   Molteni, Ugo ^e   Onnela, Antti ^b   Perakyla, Otso ^c   Piel, Felix ^a   Petaja, Tuukka ^c   Praplan, Arnaud P ^c   Pringle, Kirsty ^d   Rap, Alexandru ^d   Richards, Nigel A D ^d   Riipinen, Ilona ^p   Rissanen, Matti P ^c   Rondo, Linda ^a   Sarnela, Nina ^c   Schobesberger, Siegfried ^c,x   Scott, Catherine E ^d   Seinfeld, John H ^k   Sipila, Mikko ^c   Steiner, Gerhard ^c,f,q   Stozhkov, Yuri ^o   Stratmann, Frank ^r   Tomé, Antonio ^s   Virtanen, Annele ^m   Vogel, Alexander L ^b   Wagner, Andrea C ^a   Wagner, Paul E ^q   Weingartner, Ernest ^e   Wimmer, Daniela ^a,c   Winkler, Paul M ^q   Ye, Penglin ^t   Zhang, Xuan ^k   Hansel, Armin ^f,i   Dommen, Josef ^e   Donahue, Neil M ^t   Worsnop, Douglas R ^c,m,u   Baltensperger, Urs ^e   Kulmala, Markku ^c   Carslaw, Kenneth S ^d   Curtius, Joachim ^a   more..

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^g ONERA   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

ⁱ IONICON Analytik GmbH   (Austria)

^j ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^k California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^l WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^m UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

ⁿ FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^o LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^p STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^q UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^r LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^s UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

^t CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^w Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)   (South Korea)

^x UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION; PINENE; SULFURIC ACID; AEROSOL; ALPHA-PINENE; OXYGEN; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TERPENE;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BIOGENIC MATERIAL; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COSMIC RAY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IONIC COMPOSITION; NUCLEATION; ORGANIC MATTER;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; HUMIDITY; OZONOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; VAPOR; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUANTUM THEORY; VOLATILIZATION;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COSMIC RADIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; IONS; MONOTERPENES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; OZONE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUANTUM THEORY; SULFURIC ACIDS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84971327870     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17953     Document Type: Article

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