Aerosol chemistry and the effect of aerosol water content on visibility impairment and radiative forcing in Guangzhou during the 2006 Pearl River Delta campaign

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3231-3244

  Jung, Jinsang ^a   Lee, Hanlim ^a   Kim, Young J ^a   Liu, Xingang ^b   Zhang, Yuanhang ^b   Gu, Jianwei ^b   Fan, Shaojia ^c  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aerosol water content; Light extinction budget; Optical property; Radiative forcing; Visibility

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM NITRATE; AMMONIUM SULFATE; CARBON;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; AIR QUALITY; ALBEDO; BIOMASS BURNING; CHEMICAL PROPERTY; METROPOLITAN AREA; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE FORCING; VISIBILITY; WATER CONTENT;

AEROSOL; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; COMBUSTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RADIATIVE FORCING; URBAN AREA; VISIBILITY; WATER CONTENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ALGORITHMS; AMMONIUM SULFATE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITRATES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 69249218952     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.04.021     Document Type: Article

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