Influence of surface-based stable layer development on Asian dust behaviour over Tokyo

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 263-275

  Tsunematsu, Nobumitsu ^a,b   Iwai, Hironori ^a   Ishii, Shoken ^a   Yasui, Motoaki ^a   Murayama, Yasuhiro ^a   Mizutani, Kohei ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asian dust; Doppler lidar observations; Numerical experiments; Surface based stable layer; Tokyo metropolitan area

Indexed keywords

ASIAN DUST; BLOCKING EFFECTS; COLD FRONTS; DOPPLER LIDAR OBSERVATIONS; GROUND SURFACES; METEOROLOGICAL FIELDS; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; METROPOLITAN AREAS; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; RADIATIONAL COOLING; SOUTH-WESTERLY WINDS; STAGNANT AIRS; TOKYO METROPOLITAN AREA; UPPER AIRS; WARM AIRS;

DOPPLER EFFECT; DUST; EXPERIMENTS; FARM BUILDINGS; OPTICAL RADAR;

SURFACE ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DOPPLER LIDAR; DUST STORM; METROPOLITAN AREA; NUMERICAL MODEL; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO]; TOKYO [TOKYO (PRF)];

EID: 64249144054     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-009-9366-6     Document Type: Article

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