Constraints on black carbon aerosol distribution from Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) CO

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Arellano Jr , Avelino F ^a,b   Hess, Peter G ^c   Edwards, D P ^a   Baumgardner, D ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON MONOXIDE; FOG;

BLACK CARBON; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; CURRENT ABILITY; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODEL SIMULATION; SOURCE REGION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE SENSOR; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77956431643     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044416     Document Type: Article

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