The ratio of aerosol optical absorption coefficients to sulfur concentrations, as an indicator of smoke from forest fires when sampling in polar regions

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1147-1157

  Polissar, Alexandr V ^a,c   Hopke, Philip K ^a   Malm, William C ^b   Sisler, James F ^b  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic haze; Correlations; Factor analysis; Sources of aerosol; Time series

Indexed keywords

SULFUR;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; DRUG TOXICITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FIRE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKE; UNITED STATES;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION DATA; AEROSOL OPTICAL ABSORPTION; ARCTIC HAZE; FOREST FIRE; SULPHUR AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; WOOD SMOKE PARTICLE;

USA, ALASKA;

EID: 0029668208     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(95)00334-7     Document Type: Article

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