Causes of haze in the Columbia River Gorge

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 947-958

  Green, Mark ^a   Xu, Jin ^b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; LIGHT SCATTERING; METEOROLOGY; SMOKE;

BIOMASS SMOKE; ORGANIC MASS; VISIBILITY IMPAIRMENT;

AIR POLLUTION;

NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMBUSTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIELD STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAZE; LATITUDE; LIGHT SCATTERING; METEOROLOGY; NEPHELOMETRY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKE; SUMMER; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNITED STATES; WIND;

EID: 34548309391     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3155/1047-3289.57.8.947     Document Type: Article

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