Vertical profiling of Saharan dust with Raman lidars and airborne HSRL in southern Morocco during SAMUM

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 144-164

  Tesche, Matthias ^a   Ansmann, Albert ^a   Müller, Detlef ^a   Althausen, Dietrich ^a   Mattis, Ina ^a   Heese, Birgit ^a   Freudenthaler, Volker ^b   Wiegner, Matthias ^b   Esselborn, Michael ^c   Pisani, Gianluca ^d   Knippertz, Peter ^e  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE SURVEY; BACKSCATTER; DUST; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VERTICAL PROFILE; WAVELENGTH;

AFRICA; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; HIGH ATLAS; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; OUARZAZATE; SOUSS-MASSA-DRAA; TADLA-AZILAL;

EID: 58849157783     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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