Source characterization of highly oxidized multifunctional compounds in a boreal forest environment using positive matrix factorization

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 12715-12731

  Yan, Chao ^a   Nie, Wei ^a,b   Aïjälä, Mikko ^a   Rissanen, Matti P ^a   Canagaratna, Manjula R ^c   Massoli, Paola ^c   Junninen, Heikki ^a   Jokinen, Tuija ^a,f   Sarnela, Nina ^a   Häme, Silja A K ^a   Schobesberger, Siegfried ^a,g   Canonaco, Francesco ^d   Yao, Lei ^e   Prévôt, André S H ^d   Petäjä, Tuukka ^a,b   Kulmala, Markku ^a   Sipilä, Mikko ^a   Worsnop, Douglas R ^a,c   Ehn, Mikael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOREAL FOREST; MONOTERPENE; NITRATE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIDATION;

FINLAND; HYYTIALA; PIRKANMAA;

EID: 84991571520     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-12715-2016     Document Type: Article

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