Seasonal variation of columnar aerosol optical properties in Yangtze River Delta in China

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1326-1335

  Yu, Xingna ^a   Zhu, Bin ^a   Yin, Yan ^a   Fan, Shuxian ^a   Chen, Aijun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

AERONET; aerosol optical properties; Yangtze River Delta

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054100775     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-011-0158-9     Document Type: Article

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