Articles | Volume 13, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8285-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8285-2013
Research article
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22 Aug 2013
Research article |  | 22 Aug 2013

High abundances of water-soluble dicarboxylic acids, ketocarboxylic acids and α-dicarbonyls in the mountaintop aerosols over the North China Plain during wheat burning season

K. Kawamura, E. Tachibana, K. Okuzawa, S. G. Aggarwal, Y. Kanaya, and Z. F. Wang

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