Ambient measurement of fluorescent aerosol particles with a WIBS in the Yangtze River Delta of China: Potential impacts of combustion-related aerosol particles

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 11337-11348

  Yu, Xiawei ^a,b   Wang, Zhibin ^b   Zhang, Minghui ^b   Kuhn, Uwe ^b   Xie, Zhouqing ^a   Cheng, Yafang ^b   Pöschl, Ulrich ^b   Su, Hang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); SPECTROMETER;

CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 84987704771     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-11337-2016     Document Type: Article

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