Retrieval of columnar aerosol size distributions and radiative-forcing evaluations from sun-photometric measurements taken during the CLEARCOLUMN (ACE 2) experiment

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 29-30, 2000, Pages 5095-5105

  Vitale, Vito ^a   Tomasi, Claudio ^a   Lupi, Angelo ^a   Cacciari, Alessandra ^a   Marani, Stefano ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aerosol extinction; Aerosol radiative properties; Climatic effects; Inversion methods

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOTOMETRY; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BOUGUER-LAMBERT-BEER LAW; CLIMATIC EFFECTS; KING INVERSION METHOD;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

WATER;

AEROSOL; PHOTOMETER; RADIATIVE FORCING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; EXPERIMENT; FORCE; GAS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETRY; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY; SUN; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNIQUE; VEGETATION; WAVELENGTH;

PORTUGAL; SAGRES;

EID: 0034307553     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(00)00269-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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