Evaluation of continuous ceilometer-based mixing layer heights and correlations with PM2.5 concentrations in Beijing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7475, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Schäfer, Klaus ^a   Wang, Yuesi ^b   Münkel, Christoph ^d   Emeis, Stefan ^a   Xin, Jinyuan ^b   Tang, Guiqian ^b   Norra, Stefan ^c   Schleicher, Nina ^c   Vogt, Joachim ^c   Suppan, Peter ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d VAISALA OYJ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Air quality; Beijing; Ceilometer; Megacity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC LAYERS; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BEIJING; DISTRIBUTION OF PARTICLES; INVERSION LAYER; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; MEGACITIES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MIXING LAYER HEIGHT; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; URBAN ATMOSPHERES; URBAN BOUNDARY LAYERS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLLUTION; REMOTE SENSING;

AIR QUALITY;

EID: 70450210402     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.830430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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