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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-8593-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-8593-2020
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22 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 22 Jul 2020

Airborne in situ measurements of aerosol size distributions and black carbon across the Indo-Gangetic Plain during SWAAMI–RAWEX

Mukunda Madhab Gogoi, Venugopalan Nair Jayachandran, Aditya Vaishya, Surendran Nair Suresh Babu, Sreedharan Krishnakumari Satheesh, and Krishnaswamy Krishna Moorthy

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