Articles | Volume 16, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9201-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9201-2016
Research article
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26 Jul 2016
Research article |  | 26 Jul 2016

The importance of plume rise on the concentrations and atmospheric impacts of biomass burning aerosol

Carolin Walter, Saulo R. Freitas, Christoph Kottmeier, Isabel Kraut, Daniel Rieger, Heike Vogel, and Bernhard Vogel

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