Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-4917-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-4917-2013
Research article
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14 May 2013
Research article |  | 14 May 2013

The mass and number size distributions of black carbon aerosol over Europe

C. L. Reddington, G. McMeeking, G. W. Mann, H. Coe, M. G. Frontoso, D. Liu, M. Flynn, D. V. Spracklen, and K. S. Carslaw

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