Multi-year investigations of aerosol layer using lidar measurements at Chung-Li, Taiwan

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-47

  Chiang, Chih Wei ^a,d   Das, Subrata Kumar ^b,d   Lin, Chuan Yao ^c   Nee, Jan B ^d   Sun, Shu Huang ^a   Chiang, Hung Wei ^a   Yu, Ming Ju ^a   Zhang, Shu Ting ^e  

^a KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Lidar

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; TROPOSPHERE;

BULK RICHARDSON NUMBER; GROUND-BASED LIDARS; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; PM10 MASS CONCENTRATIONS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; STATISTICAL INTERPRETATION; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 84865825544     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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