Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3485-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3485-2016
Research article
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17 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 17 Mar 2016

Production of peroxy nitrates in boreal biomass burning plumes over Canada during the BORTAS campaign

Marcella Busilacchio, Piero Di Carlo, Eleonora Aruffo, Fabio Biancofiore, Cesare Dari Salisburgo, Franco Giammaria, Stephane Bauguitte, James Lee, Sarah Moller, James Hopkins, Shalini Punjabi, Stephen Andrews, Alistair C. Lewis, Mark Parrington, Paul I. Palmer, Edward Hyer, and Glenn M. Wolfe

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