Observations of the boundary layer structure and aerosol properties over Xi'an using an eye-safe Mie scattering Lidar

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 122, Issue , 2013, Pages 97-105

  Yan, Qing ^a   Hua, Dengxin ^a   Wang, Yufeng ^a   Li, Shichun ^a   Gao, Fei ^a   zhou, Zhirong ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Liu, Caixuan ^a   Zhang, Shouqiang ^a  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical properties; Mie lidar; MLD; UBL

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL PROPERTIES; BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE; MLD; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) SCANNING; UBL;

AEROSOLS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; BOUNDARY LAYER; LIDAR; MIE THEORY; TROPOSPHERE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

CHINA; SHAANXI; XIAN;

EID: 84876418851     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.10.026     Document Type: Article

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