Articles | Volume 16, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6407-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6407-2016
Research article
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25 May 2016
Research article |  | 25 May 2016

Aircraft observations of water-soluble dicarboxylic acids in the aerosols over China

Yan-Lin Zhang, Kimitaka Kawamura, Ping Qing Fu, Suresh K. R. Boreddy, Tomomi Watanabe, Shiro Hatakeyama, Akinori Takami, and Wei Wang

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