Winter brown carbon over six of China's megacities: light absorption, molecular characterization, and improved source apportionment revealed by multilayer perceptron neural network

Wang, Diwei; Shen, Zhenxing; Zhang, Qian; Lei, Yali; Zhang, Tian; Huang, Shasha; Sun, Jian; Xu, Hongmei; Cao, Junji

doi:10.5194/acp-22-14893-2022

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Winter brown carbon over six of China's megacities: light absorption, molecular characterization, and improved source apportionment revealed by multilayer perceptron neural network

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