An extremely low visibility event over the Guangzhou region: A case study

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 35, 2005, Pages 6568-6577

  Wu, Dui ^a   Tie, Xuexi ^b   Li, Chengcai ^c   Ying, Zhuming ^d   Lau, Alexis Kai Hon ^c   Huang, Jian ^a   Deng, Xuejiao ^a   Bi, Xueyan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Asian Brown Cloud (ABC); Guangzhou; Visibility

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HURRICANES; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

ASIAN BROWN CLOUD (ABC); GUANGZHOU, CHINA;

VISIBILITY;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXTREME EVENT; OPTICAL DEPTH; VISIBILITY;

AEROSOL; AIR; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FORCE; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHILIPPINES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY; VISIBILITY; WEATHER; WIND;

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

EID: 26444552873     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.07.061     Document Type: Article

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