Seasonal dependence of the long-range transport and vertical distribution of free tropospheric aerosols over east Asia: On the basis of aircraft and lidar measurements and isentropic trajectory analysis

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  Matsuki, Atsushi ^a   Iwasaka, Yasunobu ^a   Osada, Kazuo ^a   Matsunaga, Katsuji ^a   Kido, Mizuka ^a   Inomata, Yayoi ^a   Trochkine, Dmitri ^a   Nishita, Chiharu ^a   Nezuka, Takayoshi ^a   Sakai, Tetsu ^b   Zhang, Daizhou ^c   Kwon, Soung An ^d  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF KUMAMOTO   (Japan)

^d National Institute of Environmental Research   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Aircraft; Asia; Dust; Long range transport; Troposphere

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; LIDAR; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AEROSOL; LIDAR; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 1342269205     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd003266     Document Type: Article

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