Frost flowers and sea-salt aerosols over seasonal sea-ice areas in northwestern Greenland during winter-spring

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2017, Pages 8577-8598

  Hara, Keiichiro ^a   Matoba, Sumito ^b   Hirabayashi, Motohiro ^c   Yamasaki, Tetsuhide ^d  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HALOGEN; POLAR REGION; SEA ICE; SEA SALT; SPRING (SEASON); WINTER;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 85024494866     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-8577-2017     Document Type: Article

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