Articles | Volume 13, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2415-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2415-2013
Research article
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01 Mar 2013
Research article |  | 01 Mar 2013

Brown carbon absorption linked to organic mass tracers in biomass burning particles

D. A. Lack, R. Bahreini, J. M. Langridge, J. B. Gilman, and A. M. Middlebrook

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