Articles | Volume 6, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-971-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-971-2013
Research article
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12 Apr 2013
Research article |  | 12 Apr 2013

Aircraft based four-channel thermal dissociation laser induced fluorescence instrument for simultaneous measurements of NO2, total peroxy nitrate, total alkyl nitrate, and HNO3

P. Di Carlo, E. Aruffo, M. Busilacchio, F. Giammaria, C. Dari-Salisburgo, F. Biancofiore, G. Visconti, J. Lee, S. Moller, C. E. Reeves, S. Bauguitte, G. Forster, R. L. Jones, and B. Ouyang

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