Aerosol optical properties and large-scale transport of air masses: Observations at a coastal and a semiarid site in the eastern Mediterranean during summer 1998

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 106, Issue D9, 2001, Pages 9807-9826

  Formenti, P ^a,b   Andreae, M O ^a   Andreae, T W ^a   Galani, E ^c   Vasaras, A ^c   Zerefos, C ^c   Amiridis, V ^c   Orlovsky, L ^d   Karnieli, A ^d   Wendisch, M ^e   Wex, H ^e   Holben, B N ^f   Maenhaut, W ^g   Lelieveld, J ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; OPTICAL PROPERTY;

ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SDE BOKER;

EID: 0034953187     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JD900609     Document Type: Article

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