Global distribution of particle phase state in atmospheric secondary organic aerosols

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Shiraiwa, Manabu ^a,b   Li, Ying ^b,c,d   Tsimpidi, Alexandra P ^b   Karydis, Vlassis A ^b   Berkemeier, Thomas ^b,e   Pandis, Spyros N ^f   Lelieveld, Jos ^b,g   Koop, Thomas ^h   Pöschl, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^e Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^g CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^h BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDIZING AGENT; WATER;

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANETARY SURFACE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE; GAS; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; LATITUDE; LIQUID; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYSICAL PHASE; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; SOLID; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 85033240403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15002     Document Type: Article

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