Articles | Volume 14, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-6427-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-6427-2014
Research article
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27 Jun 2014
Research article |  | 27 Jun 2014

Quantifying black carbon from biomass burning by means of levoglucosan – a one-year time series at the Arctic observatory Zeppelin

K. E. Yttri, C. Lund Myhre, S. Eckhardt, M. Fiebig, C. Dye, D. Hirdman, J. Ström, Z. Klimont, and A. Stohl

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