Wintertime organic and inorganic aerosols in Lanzhou, China: Sources, processes, and comparison with the results during summer

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 14937-14957

  Xu, Jianzhong ^a   Shi, Jinsen ^b   Zhang, Qi ^c   Ge, Xinlei ^d   Canonaco, Francesco ^e   Prévôt, André S H ^e,f   Vonwiller, Matthias ^g   Szidat, Sönke ^g   Ge, Jinming ^b   Ma, Jianmin ^b   An, Yanqing ^a   Kang, Shichang ^a   Qin, Dahe ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ORGANIC CARBON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; SUMMER; WINTER;

CHINA; GANSU; LANZHOU;

EID: 85002573836     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-14937-2016     Document Type: Article

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