Perturbation of the European free troposphere aerosol by North American forest fire plumes during the ICARTT-ITOP experiment in summer 2004

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 5105-5127

  Petzold, A ^a   Weinzierl, B ^a   Huntrieser, H ^a   Stohl, A ^b   Real, E ^c   Cozic, J ^d   Fiebig, M ^a   Hendricks, J ^a   Lauer, A ^a   Law, K ^c   Roiger, A ^a   Schlager, H ^a   Weingartner, E ^d  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BLACK CARBON; DISPERSION; FOREST FIRE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; TRACE GAS; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

FALCONIDAE;

EID: 34547571092     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-7-5105-2007     Document Type: Article

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