Case study of Raman lidar measurements of Asian dust events in 2000 and 2001 at Nagoya and Tsukuba, Japan

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 36, Issue 35, 2002, Pages 5479-5489

  Sakai, Tetsu ^a,c   Shibata, Takashi ^b   Iwasaka, Yasunobu ^b   Nagai, Tomohiro ^c   Nakazato, Masahisa ^c   Matsumura, Takatsugu ^c   Ichiki, Akinori ^c   Kim, Yoon Suk ^b   Tamura, Koichi ^b   Troshkin, Dmitry ^b   Hamdi, Saipul ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Particle nonsphericity; Particle size; Relative humidity; Vertical distribution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA ACQUISITION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR; RAMAN SCATTERING;

DEPOLARIZATION;

DUST;

SULFATE;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; BACKSCATTER; DUST; LIDAR; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CASE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPOLARIZATION; HUMIDITY; HYPOTHESIS; JAPAN; MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MINERAL DUST; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

JAPAN;

EID: 0036876911     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00664-7     Document Type: Article

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