Remote sensing of aerosol water uptake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Schuster, Gregory L ^a   Lin, Bing ^a   Dubovik, Oleg ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERONET; AEROSOL RADIATIVE FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC COLUMNS; DESERT DUSTS; EAST COASTS; EFFECT OF WATERS; GROWTH FACTORS; HYGROSCOPIC GROWTH FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; WATER UPTAKES; EFFECT OF WATER; GROWTH FACTOR; HYGROSCOPIC GROWTH; HYGROSCOPIC GROWTH FACTOR; WATER UPTAKE;

BIOACTIVITY; HUMIDITY CONTROL; LANDFORMS; PEPTIDES; REMOTE SENSING; TITRATION; WATER CONTENT; AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; REMOTE SENSING;

AEROSOL; DATABASE; DUST; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; HYGROSCOPICITY; RADIATIVE FORCING; REMOTE SENSING; WATER CONTENT;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65249126997     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036576     Document Type: Article

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