Source reconciliation of atmospheric dust causing visibility impairment in Class I areas of the western United States

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Kavouras, Ilias G ^a   Etyemezian, Vicken ^a   DuBois, Davis W ^a   Xu, Jin ^a,b   Pitchford, Marc ^c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b California Air Resour Board ^*  (United States)

^c NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Silver Spring   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CARBON BLACK; CLIMATOLOGY; EROSION; LAND USE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOILS; VISIBILITY;

AEROSOL COMPONENTS; AEROSOL EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; AIR MASS; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITIES; ARIZONA; ASIAN DUSTS; ATMOSPHERIC DUSTS; BACKWARD TRAJECTORIES; BLACK CARBONS; CLASS I; DIAGNOSTIC RATIOS; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; DUST EMISSION MODELS; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; HIGH CONFIDENCES; INTERAGENCY MONITORING OF PROTECTED VISUAL ENVIRONMENTS; LAND USE MAPS; LOW VISIBILITIES; ME-XICO; MOTOR VEHICLES; MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NORTH AMERICANS; ORGANIC MATTERS; REMOTE AREAS; SEMI-QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SOURCE AREAS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; UNPAVED ROADS; UPWIND SOURCE AREAS; VISIBILITY IMPAIRMENTS; WESTERN UNITED STATES; WIND EROSIONS; WIND-BLOWN DUSTS;

DUST;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NITRATE; ORGANIC MATTER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 62749203740     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD009923     Document Type: Article

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