Light absorption of black carbon aerosol and its enhancement by mixing state in an urban atmosphere in South China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 118-123

  Lan, Zi Juan ^a   Huang, Xiao Feng ^a   Yu, Kuang You ^b   Sun, Tian Le ^a   Zeng, Li Wu ^a   Hu, Min ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Absorption Angstrom exponent; Mass absorption efficiency; Mixing state; Photoacoustic soot spectrometer; Single particle soot photometer

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; ANGSTROM EXPONENT; BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; CLIMATE EFFECTS; CLIMATE WARMING; DIURNAL PATTERN; INTERNAL MIXING; MAGAZINE PAPERS; MASS ABSORPTION; MASS CONCENTRATION; MIXING STATE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SINGLE PARTICLE; SOUTH CHINA; THEORETICAL MODELS; URBAN ATMOSPHERES; VEHICULAR EMISSION; VISUAL SPECTRUM;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOG; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; SOOT; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

MIXING;

BLACK CARBON;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL PROPERTY; BLACK CARBON; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; MEGACITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOLAR RADIATION; SOOT; SPECTROMETER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WARMING;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PHOTOMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETER; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; SHENZHEN;

EID: 84872172589     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.12.009     Document Type: Article

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