Articles | Volume 6, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3649-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3649-2013
Research article
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23 Dec 2013
Research article |  | 23 Dec 2013

SoFi, an IGOR-based interface for the efficient use of the generalized multilinear engine (ME-2) for the source apportionment: ME-2 application to aerosol mass spectrometer data

F. Canonaco, M. Crippa, J. G. Slowik, U. Baltensperger, and A. S. H. Prévôt

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