Optical characteristics of biomass burning aerosols over Southeastern Europe determined from UV-Raman lidar measurements

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2431-2440

  Amiridis, V ^a   Balis, D S ^b   Giannakaki, E ^b   Stohl, A ^c   Kazadzis, S ^b,d   Koukouli, M E ^b   Zanis, P ^b  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; BACKSCATTER; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON MONOXIDE; LIDAR; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SATELLITE DATA; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SMOKE; TROPOSPHERE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; EASTERN EUROPE; GREECE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 70350516398     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-2431-2009     Document Type: Article

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