Arctic haze and clouds observed by lidar during four winter seasons of 1993-1997, at Eureka, Canada

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2459-2470

  Ishii, Shoken ^a   Shibata, Takashi ^a   Nagai, Tomohiro ^b   Mizutani, Kohei ^c   Itabe, Toshikazu ^c   Hirota, Michio ^b   Fujimoto, Toshifumi ^b   Uchino, Osamu ^d  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Communication Research Laboratory ^*  (Japan)

^d JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Canadian high arctic; Cloud; Haze; Lidar measurement; Winter season

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC HAZE; WINTER SEASON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

CLOUD COVER; HAZE; LIDAR; SCATTERING; WINTER;

AIR MONITORING; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CANADA; CLOUD; HAZE; HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WINTER;

CANADA;

EID: 0033167855     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(98)00397-5     Document Type: Article

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