Analysis of the columnar radiative properties retrieved during African desert dust events over Granada (2005-2010) using principal plane sky radiances and spheroids retrieval procedure

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 104-105, Issue , 2012, Pages 292-301

  Valenzuela, A ^a,b   Olmo, F J ^a,b   Lyamani, H ^a,b   Anton M ^a,b   Quirantes, A ^a   Alados Arboledas, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Centro Andaluz de Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dust properties; Mineral particles; Non spherical particles; Principal plane

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; AEROSOL VOLUME; AIR MASS; ANTHROPOGENIC ORIGIN; ASYMMETRY PARAMETER; COARSE PARTICLES; COARSE TO FINE; DESERT DUST; DUST EVENT; EXTINCTION MEASUREMENTS; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MINERAL PARTICLES; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; PRINCIPAL PLANE; RADIANCE MEASUREMENT; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; RETRIEVAL PROCEDURES; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; SOLAR IRRADIANCE MEASUREMENT; STUDY AREAS; VOLUME CONCENTRATION RATIOS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; LANDFORMS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOLAR RADIATION;

DUST;

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; ALBEDO; DUST; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETER; RADIATIVE FORCING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOLAR RADIATION;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84655176771     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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