Primary and secondary aerosols in Beijing in winter: Sources, variations and processes

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 8309-8329

  Sun, Yele ^a,b   Du, Wei ^a,c   Fu, Pingqing ^a   Wang, Qingqing ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Ge, Xinlei ^d   Zhang, Qi ^e   Zhu, Chunmao ^d,f   Ren, Lujie ^a   Xu, Weiqi ^a,c   Zhao, Jian ^a,c   Han, Tingting ^a,c   Worsnop, Douglas R ^g   Wang, Zifa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; FORMATION MECHANISM; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; POINT SOURCE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WINTER;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84978416093     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-8309-2016     Document Type: Article

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