Aerosol-CCN closure in downtown Toronto
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Closure between measured and modeled cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) using size-resolved aerosol compositions in downtown Toronto K. Broekhuizen, R. Y.-W. Chang, W. R. Leaitch, S.-M. Li, and J. P. D. Abbatt Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada Meteorological Service of Canada, 4905 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON M3H 5T4, Canada Received: 16 June 2005 – Accepted: 1 August 2005 – Published: 19 August 2005 Correspondence to: J. P. D. Abbatt ([email protected]) © 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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