Volcanic sulphate and arctic dust plumes over the North Atlantic Ocean

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 4968-4974

  Ovadnevaite, J ^a,b   Ceburnis, D ^a   Plauskaite Sukiene, K ^b   Modini, R ^c   Dupuy, R ^a   Rimselyte, I ^b   Ramonet, M ^d   Kvietkus, K ^b   Ristovski, Z ^c   Berresheim, H ^a   O'Dowd, C D ^a  

^a Environmental Change Institute ECI   (Ireland)

^b CENTER FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Aerosol properties; Icelandic dust; Particle acidity; Volcanic sulphate aerosol

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETRY; AEROSOL PROPERTIES; AIR MASS BACK TRAJECTORIES; ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTANTS; BACKGROUND CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DUST PARTICLE; ELEVATED LEVEL; FIELD CAMPAIGN; HIGH-TIME RESOLUTION; ICELANDIC DUST; ICELANDICS; ICELANDS; IRELAND; MACE HEAD; NITRATE LEVELS; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF AEROSOLS; PARTICLE ACIDITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RESEARCH STATIONS; SATELLITE IMAGES; SULPHATES; VOLCANIC EMISSION; VOLCANIC SULPHATE AEROSOL;

AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; VOLCANOES;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

NITRATE; SULFATE; SULFUR;

ADVECTION; AEROSOL; AEROSOL PROPERTY; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE MODELING; NITRATE; NOAA SATELLITE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SULFATE; VOLCANO;

ACIDITY; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE; DESERT; DUST; ICELAND; IRELAND; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; VOLCANO;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 69849094764     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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