Articles | Volume 12, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11985-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11985-2012
Research article
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17 Dec 2012
Research article |  | 17 Dec 2012

Asian dust storm observed at a rural mountain site in southern China: chemical evolution and heterogeneous photochemistry

W. Nie, T. Wang, L. K. Xue, A. J. Ding, X. F. Wang, X. M. Gao, Z. Xu, Y. C. Yu, C. Yuan, Z. S. Zhou, R. Gao, X. H. Liu, Y. Wang, S. J. Fan, S. Poon, Q. Z. Zhang, and W. X. Wang

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