Record heavy mineral dust outbreaks over Korea in 2010: Two cases observed with multiwavelength aerosol/depolarization/Raman-quartz lidar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Tatarov, B ^a   Muller D ^a,b,c   Noh, Y M ^a   Lee, K H ^d   Shin, D H ^a   Shin, S K ^a   Sugimoto, N ^e   Seifert, P ^b   Kim, Y J ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Kyungil University   (South Korea)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERALS; OPTICAL RADAR; QUARTZ;

CENTRAL ASIA; DUST TRANSPORT; EAST ASIA; GROUND BASED; HEAVY MINERALS; MINERAL DUST; MULTIWAVELENGTH; RECORD VALUES;

DUST;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DUST; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HEAVY MINERAL; LIDAR; QUARTZ;

KOREA;

EID: 84864059374     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051972     Document Type: Article

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