Articles | Volume 13, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-10353-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-10353-2013
Research article
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24 Oct 2013
Research article |  | 24 Oct 2013

Source apportionment of submicron organic aerosol at an urban background and a road site in Barcelona (Spain) during SAPUSS

M. Alier, B. L. van Drooge, M. Dall'Osto, X. Querol, J. O. Grimalt, and R. Tauler

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