Characterization of Asian dust and Siberian smoke with multi-wavelength Raman lidar over Tokyo, Japan in spring 2003

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-5

  Murayama, Toshiyuki ^a   Müller, Detlef ^b   Wada, Katsuya ^a   Shimizu, Atsushi ^c   Sekiguchi, Miho ^a   Tsukamoto, Tatsuro ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

0305 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801); 0368 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Troposphere Constituent transport and chemistry; 0394 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Instruments and Techniques

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CHARACTERIZATION; GEOPHYSICS; OPTICAL RADAR; RAMAN SCATTERING; SMOKE; THERMAL PLUMES;

DUAL-WAVELENGTH RAMAN LIDAR; INVERSION ALGORITHMS; PARTICLE DEPOLARIZATION RATIO (PDR); SMOKE LAYERS;

DUST;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; DUST; LIDAR; SMOKE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO]; WORLD;

EID: 16644389042     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021105     Document Type: Article

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