Articles | Volume 17, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14039-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14039-2017
Research article
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24 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 24 Nov 2017

Year-round records of bulk and size-segregated aerosol composition in central Antarctica (Concordia site) – Part 1: Fractionation of sea-salt particles

Michel Legrand, Susanne Preunkert, Eric Wolff, Rolf Weller, Bruno Jourdain, and Dietmar Wagenbach

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