Aerosol characteristics including fumigation effect under weak precipitation over the southeastern coast of China

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 84-85, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-36

  Zhang, Xiaolin ^a,b   Huang, Yinbo ^a   Rao, Ruizhong ^a  

^a ANHUI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric aerosol particles; Fumigation effect; Precipitation; Scavenging coefficient

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; ABSORPTION PROPERTY; AEROSOL CHARACTERISTICS; AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL PARTICLES; DOWNWARD FLOW; FIELD MEASUREMENT; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MODEL ESTIMATION; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SCAVENGING COEFFICIENTS; STATISTICAL STUDY; TOTAL NUMBER CONCENTRATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; FUMIGATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

EID: 84864006004     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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