Integration of remote sensing data and surface observations to estimate the impact of the Russian wildfires over Europe and Asia during August 2010

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3771-3791

  Mei, L ^a,g   Xue, Y ^a,b   De Leeuw, G ^c,d,e   Guang, J ^a   Wang, Y ^a,g   Li, Y ^a,g   Xu, H ^a,g   Yang, L ^a   Hou, T ^f,g   He, X ^a,g   Wu, C ^a   Dong, J ^a,g   Chen, Z ^f,g  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e TNO   (Netherlands)

^f CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BEAR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAS TRANSPORT; HAZE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MODIS; MONITORING SYSTEM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; OZONE; POLAR REGION; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; TRACE GAS; WILDFIRE;

ASIA; EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84255198000     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-3771-2011     Document Type: Article

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