Mesoscale modeling of smoke transport over the Southeast Asian Maritime Continent: Interplay of sea breeze, trade wind, typhoon, and topography

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 122, Issue , 2013, Pages 486-503

  Wang, Jun ^a   Ge, Cui ^a,f   Yang, Zhifeng ^a   Hyer, Edward J ^b   Reid, Jeffrey S ^b   Chew, Boon Ning ^c   Mahmud, Mastura ^d   Zhang, Yongxin ^e   Zhang, Meigen ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Sea breeze; Smoke particles; Southeast Asian Maritime Continent; Trade wind; Typhoon

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL EXTINCTION; ANALYSIS OF DATA; BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; BURNING EMISSIONS; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR; DRY CONDITION; FIRE PRODUCTS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MALAYSIA; MARITIME CONTINENT; MASS CONCENTRATION; MESOSCALE MODELING; MODEL SIMULATION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NEAR-SURFACE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGIONAL BIOMASS; SEA BREEZE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SMOKE EMISSION; SMOKE INJECTION; SMOKE LAYER; SMOKE PARTICLES; SMOKE PLUME; SMOKE RELEASE; SMOKE TRANSPORT; SUMATRA; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TRADE WINDS; TRANSITION PERIOD; TRANSPORT SIMULATION; TRUE COLORS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WESTERN PACIFIC; WIDE SPREADS;

AIR QUALITY; COMMERCE; HURRICANES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SMOKE;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; BIOMASS BURNING; EL NINO; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODELING; MODIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEA BREEZE; SMOKE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRADE WIND; TYPHOON;

BORNEO; MALAYSIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 84873269287     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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