Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1129-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1129-2013
Research article
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01 Feb 2013
Research article |  | 01 Feb 2013

Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) and peroxyacetic acid (PAA) measurements by iodide chemical ionisation mass spectrometry: first analysis of results in the boreal forest and implications for the measurement of PAN fluxes

G. J. Phillips, N. Pouvesle, J. Thieser, G. Schuster, R. Axinte, H. Fischer, J. Williams, J. Lelieveld, and J. N. Crowley

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