Structure of dust and air pollutant outflow over East Asia in the spring

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Itahashi, Syuichi ^a   Yumimoto, Keiya ^b   Uno, Itsushi ^b   Eguchi, Kenta ^a   Takemura, Toshihiko ^b   Hara, Yukari ^c   Shimizu, Atsushi ^c   Sugimoto, Nobuo ^c   Liu, Zhaoyan ^d  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; DUST; OPTICAL RADAR; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ASIAN DUST; ATMOSPHERIC STRATIFICATION; COLD FRONT; DUST LAYER; DUST PARTICLE; EAST ASIA; FREE TROPOSPHERE; LIDAR OBSERVATION; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; STRONG STRATIFICATION; WEAK STRATIFICATION;

AIR POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DUST; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEASONALITY; TROPOSPHERE;

FAR EAST;

EID: 78049340010     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044776     Document Type: Article

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