A pervasive and persistent asian dust event over north america during spring 2010: Lidar and sunphotometer observations

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4515-4527

  Cottle, P ^a   Strawbridge, K ^b   Mckendry, I ^a   O'Neill, N ^c   Saha, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DETECTION METHOD; DUST; LIDAR; OPTICAL DEPTH; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; CANADA; EGBERT; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84877857873     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-4515-2013     Document Type: Article

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