Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3595-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3595-2016
Research article
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17 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 17 Mar 2016

Source apportionment vs. emission inventories of non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC) in an urban area of the Middle East: local and global perspectives

Thérèse Salameh, Stéphane Sauvage, Charbel Afif, Agnès Borbon, and Nadine Locoge

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