An assessment of the surface longwave direct radiative effect of airborne dust in Zhangye, China, during the Asian Monsoon Years field experiment (2008)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Hansell, Richard A ^a,b   Tsay, Si Chee ^b   Hsu, N Christina ^b   Ji, Qiang ^a,b   Bell, Shaun W ^b,c   Holben, Brent N ^b   Welton, Ellsworth J ^b   Roush, Ted L ^d   Zhang, W ^e   Huang, J ^e   Li, Zhanqing ^a   Chen, H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GREENHOUSE GASES; MINERALOGY; NASA;

AEROSOL ABSORPTION; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AIRBORNE DUSTS; ASIAN MONSOON; ATMOSPHERIC EMITTED RADIANCE INTERFEROMETERS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLOSE PROXIMITY; DUST AEROSOLS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GOBI DESERT; GROUND BASED; LONG WAVES; MICROPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; MOBILE LABORATORIES; MOISTURE BUDGET; OPTICAL MODELS; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RATE PROFILES; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SAHARAN DUST; SEMI-ARID REGION; SOIL MINERALOGY; SURFACE CONDITIONS; SURFACE COOLING; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

DUST;

ABSORPTION; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DUST; EOS; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTERFEROMETER; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MOISTURE; MONSOON; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEMIARID REGION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

CAPE VERDE; CHINA; GANSU; GOBI DESERT; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; XINJIANG UYGUR; ZHANGYE;

EID: 84864046000     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD017370     Document Type: Article

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