Correlation of aerosol mass near the ground with aerosol optical depth during two seasons in Munich

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 4036-4046

  Schäfer, Klaus ^a   Harbusch, Andreas ^a   Emeis, Stefan ^a   Koepke, Peter ^b   Wiegner, Matthias ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Mixing layer height; Optical depth; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; LINEAR REGRESSION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REMOTE SENSING;

AEROSOL EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; MIXING LAYER HEIGHT; OPTICAL DEPTH;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CORRELATION; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHOTOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; GERMANY; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING;

BAVARIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; MUNICH;

EID: 43849102380     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.01.060     Document Type: Article

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