Articles | Volume 13, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-12389-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-12389-2013
Research article
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19 Dec 2013
Research article |  | 19 Dec 2013

Size-resolved measurements of brown carbon in water and methanol extracts and estimates of their contribution to ambient fine-particle light absorption

J. Liu, M. Bergin, H. Guo, L. King, N. Kotra, E. Edgerton, and R. J. Weber

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