Impact of vertical atmospheric structure on Beijing aerosol distribution

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 27, 2006, Pages 5167-5180

  Guinot, Benjamin ^a   Roger, Jean Claude ^b   Cachier, Hélène ^a   Pucai, Wang ^c   Jianhui, Bai ^c   Tong, Yu ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center   (China)

Author keywords

Accumulation layer; Aerosol vertical distribution; Radiation shielding; Urban aerosols; Urban boundary layer; Urban canopy

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; RADIATION SHIELDING; REACTION KINETICS; SOLAR RADIATION;

ACCUMULATION LAYER; AEROSOL VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AEROSOLS; URBAN BOUNDARY LAYER; URBAN CANOPY;

AEROSOLS;

CARBON;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; LIDAR; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CANOPY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHINA; CITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEIGHT; INFORMATION; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; URBAN AREA; WEATHER;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33746027383     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.03.051     Document Type: Article

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