The structure of the dust layer over the Taklimakan Desert during the dust storm in April 2002 as observed using a depolarization lidar

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-16

  Kai, Kenji ^a   Nagata, Yuichi ^a   Tsunematsu, Nobumitsu ^a,f   Matsumura, Takatsugu ^b   Kim, Heon Sook ^a   Matsumoto, Takuya ^a,g   Hu, Shunjun ^c   Zhou, Hongfei ^c   Abo, Makoto ^d   Nagai, Tomohiro ^e  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BACKSCATTER; DIURNAL VARIATION; DUST STORM; ESTIMATION METHOD; LIDAR; MIE THEORY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

AKSU; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; TARIM BASIN; TIEN SHAN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 43749093240     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.86.1     Document Type: Article

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