Characterization of Saharan dust, marine aerosols and mixtures of biomass-burning aerosols and dust by means of multi-wavelength depolarization and Raman lidar measurements during SAMUM 2

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 706-724

  Groß, Silke ^a   Tesche, Matthias ^b   Freudenthaler, Volker ^a   Toledano, Carlos ^a,c   Wiegner, Matthias ^a   Ansmann, Albert ^b   Althausen, Dietrich ^b   Seefeldner, Meinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; BIOMASS BURNING; DUST; LIDAR; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

CAPE VERDE; PRAIA; SAO TIAGO; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 80052000729     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2011.00556.x     Document Type: Article

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