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Aerosol Science and Technology Volume 45, 2011 - Issue 4: Measurement and Behavior of Clusters, Particles, and Ions in the 1 nm Range
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Aerosol Research Letter

First Measurements of Neutral Atmospheric Cluster and 1–2 nm Particle Number Size Distributions During Nucleation Events

Jingkun Jiang Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Jun Zhao Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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Modi Chen Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Fred L. Eisele Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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Jacob Scheckman Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Brent J. Williams Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Chongai Kuang Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Environmental Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA
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Peter H. McMurry Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Pages ii-v | Received 09 Mar 2010, Accepted 24 Jun 2010, Published online: 18 Jan 2011
 
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[Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Aerosol Science and Technology to view the free supplementary files.]

This work was funded by NSF Award Number ATM-0506674 and US DOE Grant Number DE-FG-02-05ER63997. PHM was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship. We also appreciate the support of John Jansen (The Southern Company) in providing us with access to the site and the sampling laboratories and Eric Edgerton (Atmospheric Research and Analysis, Inc.) for his assistance with site preparation. We thank Dr. Susanne Hering, AST Editor, for helping to improve the clarity of our paper. The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

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