Aerosol characteristics during summer haze episodes from different source regions over the coast city of North China Plain

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 122, Issue , 2013, Pages 180-193

  Zhang, Xiaolin ^a,b   Huang, Yinbo ^a   Zhu, Wenyue ^a   Rao, Ruizhong ^a  

^a ANHUI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric aerosol particles; Haze episode; Microphysical and optical properties; Source region

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL CHARACTERISTICS; AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; ASYMMETRY PARAMETER; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL PARTICLES; HAZE EPISODE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; SOURCE REGION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

SCATTERING;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL FORMATION; AIR MASS; ALBEDO; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SUMMER;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 84876433037     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.08.009     Document Type: Article

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