Saharan dust outbreaks towards europe: 3 Years of systematic observations by the european lidar network in the frame of the earlinet project (2000-2003)

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn 2, Issue 561, 2004, Pages 845-848

  Papayannis, Alex ^a   Alpers, Matthias ^b   Balis, Dimitris ^c   Bösenberg, Jens ^d   Chaikovsky, Anatoli ^e   De Tomasi, Ferdinandoi ^f   Haagaard, Aarne ^g   Matthias, Volker ^d,h   Mattis, Ina ⁱ   Mitev, Valentin ^j   Nickovic, Slobodan ^k   Pappalardo, Gelsomina ^l   Pelon, Jacques ^m   Perez, Carlos ⁿ   Pisani, Gianluca ^f   Puchalski, Sylwester ^o   Stoyanov, Dimitar ^p   Rizi, Vincenzo ^q   Sauvage, Laurent ^r   Simeonov, Valentin ^s   Trickl, Thomas ^t   Vaughan, Geraint ^u   Wiegner, Matthias ^v   Castahno, Anna D ^w   more..

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^e B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

^f INFM   (Italy)

^g Försvarets Forskningsanstalt   (Sweden)

^h INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

ⁱ LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^j Observatoire de Neuchatel   (Switzerland)

^k Euro Mediter Ctr Insular Coast D   (Malta)

^l CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^m CNRS   (France)

ⁿ UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^o INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^p INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (Bulgaria)

^q UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^r LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^s EPFL   (Switzerland)

^t KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^u ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^v UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^w UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION RATIOS; SAHARAN DUST OUTBREAKS; SEASONAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; DUST; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SATELLITES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 3142538850     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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