Urban aerosol evolution and particle formation during wintertime temperature inversions

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 340-346

  Olofson, K Frans G ^a   Andersson, Patrik U ^a   Hallquist, Mattias ^a   Ljungström, Evert ^a   Tang, Lin ^a   Chen, Deliang ^a   Pettersson, Jan B C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Gothenburg; Lidar; Nucleation; Temperature inversion; Wintertime

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR CLEANERS; AIR ENTRAINMENT; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUCLEATION; OPTICAL RADAR;

AEROSOL CONCENTRATIONS; AIRBORNE PARTICLES; COLD CONDITIONS; FREE TROPOSPHERES; GOTHENBURG; GROUND LEVELS; HIGH CONCENTRATIONS; LIDAR; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; PARTICLE FORMATIONS; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATIONS; RESIDUAL LAYERS; SURFACE LAYERS; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ULTRA-FINE PARTICLES; URBAN AEROSOLS; WINTERTIME;

AERODYNAMICS;

AEROSOL FORMATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; LIDAR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WINTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GOTEBORG; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; VASTRA GOTALAND;

EID: 57949084770     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.09.080     Document Type: Article

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