Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-4065-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-4065-2014
Research article
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23 Apr 2014
Research article |  | 23 Apr 2014

PAH concentrations simulated with the AURAMS-PAH chemical transport model over Canada and the USA

E. Galarneau, P. A. Makar, Q. Zheng, J. Narayan, J. Zhang, M. D. Moran, M. A. Bari, S. Pathela, A. Chen, and R. Chlumsky

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