Aerosol complexity in megacities: From size-resolved chemical composition to optical properties of the Beijing atmospheric particles

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Roger, Jean Claude ^a,c   Guinot, Benjamin ^d   Cachier, Hélène ^b   Mallet, Marc ^d   Dubovik, Oleg ^c   Yu, Tong ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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

^c CNRS   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^e Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CANTILEVER BEAMS; CARBON BLACK; DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ACCUMULATION MODES; ACCURATE MODELING; AEROSOL MODELS; AEROSOL PARTICLES; AEROSOL SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES; BLACK CARBON; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DERIVED DATA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA PROCESSING; INORGANIC MATERIALS; INTERNAL MIXING; MEGACITIES; MIXED PARTICLES; MODE NUMBER; PARTICLE NUMBERS; PARTICLE PATTERNS; REALISTIC MODELING; SUN PHOTOMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEGACITY;

ASIA; BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 72149086398     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039238     Document Type: Article

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