Air quality modeling for a strong dust event in East Asia in March 2010

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 615-628

  Han, Xiao ^a   Ge, Cui ^b   Tao, Jinhua ^c   Zhang, Meigen ^a   Zhang, Renjian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AOD; Asian dust event; CMAQ; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPONENTS; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AIR POLLUTION INDEX; AIR QUALITY MODELING; AOD; ASIAN DUST EVENT; CHINESE CITIES; CMAQ; DIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; DOWNSTREAM AREAS; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; DUST EVENT; DUST PARTICLE; DUST STORM; EAST ASIA; EAST CHINA SEA; ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION; INNER MONGOLIA; MASS CONCENTRATION; MONGOLIA; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SOURCE AREA; SOUTHERN CHINA; SURFACE OBSERVATION; TEMPORAL FEATURES;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STORMS;

DUST;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DUST; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84863898742     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2011.11.0191     Document Type: Article

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