An important fingerprint of wildfires on the European aerosol load

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 10487-10501

  Barnaba, F ^a   Angelini, F ^a   Curci, G ^b   Gobbi, G P ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; DATA SET; FOREST FIRE; RADIATION BUDGET; SATELLITE DATA; WILDFIRE;

EUROPE;

EID: 80055058427     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-10487-2011     Document Type: Article

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