Ground-based remote sensing of aerosol optical properties in one city in Northwest China

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 194-205

  Liu, Jianjun ^a   Zheng, Youfei ^a   Li, Zhanqing ^b   Wu, Rongjun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Optical properties; Radiative forcing; Sky radiometer; Yinchuan

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DUST; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOMETERS; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LOG-NORMAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SKY RADIOMETER; VOLUME SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NINGXIA HUIZU; YINCHUAN;

EID: 44649190406     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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