Intense dust and extremely fresh biomass burning outbreak in Barcelona, Spain: Characterization of their optical properties and estimation of their direct radiative forcing

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Sicard, M ^a   Mallet, M ^b   Garcia Vizcaino D ^a   Comeron A ^a   Rocadenbosch, F ^a   Dubuisson, P ^c   Munoz Porcar C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

direct radiative forcing; dust; fresh biomass burning; lidar

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR; SMOKE;

BARCELONA , SPAIN; BIOMASS-BURNING; DIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SATELLITE SYSTEM; SMOKE PARTICLES; SUN-PHOTOMETERS; SURFACE ALBEDO;

DUST;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; BIOMASS BURNING; DUST; LIDAR; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SMOKE;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SAHARA; SPAIN;

EID: 84866309733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034016     Document Type: Article

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