Aerosol measurements at L'Aquila EARLINET station in central Italy: Impact of local sources and large scale transport resolved by LIDAR

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 92, Issue , 2013, Pages 116-123

  Pitari, Giovanni ^a   Di Carlo, Piero ^a   Coppari, Eleonora ^a   De Luca, Natalia ^a   Di Genova, Glauco ^a,b   Iarlori, Marco ^a   Pietropaolo, Ermanno ^a   Rizi, Vincenzo ^a   Tuccella, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b Fucino Space Center ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Aerosol; LIDAR; Radiation; Transport

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL EXTINCTION; AEROSOL MASS CONCENTRATION; AEROSOL MEASUREMENT; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL PARTICLES; AEROSOL TRANSPORT; CENTRAL ITALY; COARSE MODE; DESERT DUST; EARLINET; EFFECTIVE RADIUS; FOREST FIRES; GROUND SURFACES; LARGE-SCALE TRANSPORT; LIDAR OBSERVATION; LOCAL SOURCE; MULTI-CHANNEL; NEAR INFRARED SPECTRA; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; REMOTE SITES; SAHARAN DUST; SCATTERING EFFICIENCY; TIME-PERIODS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TRANSPORT; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DEFORESTATION; DUST; FIRES; HEAT RADIATION; LANDFORMS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL RADAR; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERE; DEFORESTATION; DUST; FOREST FIRES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RADAR; RADIATION;

EID: 84870896172     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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