Unexpectedly high aerosol load in the free troposphere over central Europe in spring/summer 2003

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Mattis, Ina ^a   Ansmann, Albert ^a   Wandinger, Ulla ^a   Müller, Detlef ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; BOUNDARY LAYERS; OPTICAL RADAR; RAMAN SCATTERING; TROPOSPHERE; AEROSOLS; DEFORESTATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

PARTICLE EXTINCTION; RAMAN LIDAR; AEROSOL DISTRIBUTION; CENTRAL EUROPE; DEPOLARIZATION RATIO; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; EXTINCTION-TO-BACKSCATTER RATIO; FREE TROPOSPHERE; PARTICLE EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

GEOPHYSICS; OPTICAL RADAR;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; SMOKE; TROPOSPHERE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 0942267347     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018442     Document Type: Article

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