Aerosol optical properties observed at a semi-arid rural site in Northeastern China

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 503-514

  Wu, Yunfei ^a,b   Zhang, Renjian ^a   Pu, Yifen ^a   Zhang, Leiming ^a,c   Ho, K F ^d   Fu, Congbin ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Light absorption; Light scattering; Semi arid area

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; DUST; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; RURAL AREAS; STATISTICS;

ABSORBING MATERIALS; AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LIGHT ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SEMIARID AREA; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RURAL AREA; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; JILIN; TONGYU;

EID: 84863924992     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2011.11.0202     Document Type: Article

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