High aerosol load over the Pearl River Delta, China, observed with Raman lidar and Sun photometer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Ansmann, Albert ^a   Engelmann, Ronny ^a   Althausen, Dietrich ^a   Wandinger, Ulla ^a   Hu, Min ^b   Zhang, Yuanghang ^b   He, Qianshan ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL RADAR; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PHOTOMETERS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

AEROSOL STRATIFICATION; HAZE LAYER; PARTICLE OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RAMAN LIDAR; SUN PHOTOMETER;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; LIDAR; PHOTOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; STRATIFICATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; WORLD; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 24944495354     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023094     Document Type: Article

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