A case study of pyro-convection using transport model and remote sensing data

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 173-185

  Damoah, R ^a   Spichtinger, N ^a   Servranckx, R ^b   Fromm, M ^c   Eloranta, E W ^d   Razenkov, I A ^d   James, P ^e   Shulski, M ^f   Forster, C ^g   Stohl, A ^g  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research   (United Kingdom)

^f Alaska Climate Science Center   (United States)

^g NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; REMOTE SENSING; WILDFIRE;

EID: 33244477675     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-6-173-2006     Document Type: Article

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