Strong capping inversion over the Tokyo metropolitan area associated with airborne Asian dust

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Tsunematsu, Nobumitsu ^a,b   Sakai, Tetsu ^b   Nagai, Tomohiro ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DUST; RADIOSONDES; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIAN DUST LAYER (ADL); CAPPING INVERSION; CAPPING INVERSION (CI); METROPOLITAN AREA;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; DUST; INVERSION LAYER; LIDAR; METROPOLITAN AREA; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIOSONDE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 34047193526     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026645     Document Type: Article

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