Free tropospheric aerosol backscatter, depolarization ratio, and relative humidity measured with the Raman lidar at Nagoya in 1994-1997: Contributions of aerosols from the Asian Continent and the Pacific Ocean

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 431-442

  Sakai, Tetsu ^a   Shibata, Takashi ^a   Kwon, Soung An ^a   Kim, Yoon Suk ^a   Koichi Tamura, ^a   Iwasaka, Yasunobu ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Particle nonsphericity; Particle transport; Particles; Vertical particle distribution

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; BACKSCATTER; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPOLARIZATION; HUMIDITY; JAPAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

JAPAN;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BACKSCATTERING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

DEPOLARIZATION RATIO;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 0033622986     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(99)00328-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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