Strong particle light absorption over the Pearl River Delta (south China) and Beijing (north China) determined from combined Raman lidar and Sun photometer observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Müller, Dietrich ^a   Tesche, Matthias ^a   Eichler, Heike ^a   Engelmann, Ronny ^a   Althausen, Detlef ^a   Ansmann, Albert ^a   Cheng, Y F ^b   Zhang, Y H ^b   Hu, M ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; OPTICAL RADAR; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOTOMETERS;

ONE-WAVELENGTH RAMAN LIDAR; SINGLE-SCATTERING ALBEDO; SUN PHOTOMETER;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALBEDO; HAZE; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETER; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

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

EID: 33845611505     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027196     Document Type: Article

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