Observation of dust and anthropogenic aerosol plumes in the Northwest Pacific with a two-wavelength polarization lidar on board the research vessel Mirai

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2002, Pages

  Sugimoto, Nobuo ^a   Matsui, Ichiro ^a   Shimizu, Atsushi ^a   Uno, Itsushi ^b   Asai, Kazuhiro ^c   Endoh, Tatsuo ^d   Nakajima, Teruyuki ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DEPOLARIZATION; DUST; OPTICAL RADAR; PARTICLE SIZE; POLARIZATION; SHIPS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; CHEMICAL WEATHERS; DEPOLARIZATION RATIO; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; LARGE PARTICLE SIZES; MODEL PREDICTION; SMALL PARTICLE SIZE;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 0036819970     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015112     Document Type: Article

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