Articles | Volume 14, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-5073-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-5073-2014
Research article
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23 May 2014
Research article |  | 23 May 2014

An airborne assessment of atmospheric particulate emissions from the processing of Athabasca oil sands

S. G. Howell, A. D. Clarke, S. Freitag, C. S. McNaughton, V. Kapustin, V. Brekovskikh, J.-L. Jimenez, and M. J. Cubison

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