Estimate of aerosol absorbing components of black carbon, brown carbon, and dust from ground-based remote sensing data of sun-sky radiometers

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6534-6543

  Wang, Ling ^a,b   Li, Zhengqiang ^a   Tian, Qingjiu ^b   Ma, Yan ^a   Zhang, Fengxia ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Li, Donghui ^a   Li, Kaitao ^a   Li, Li ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

absorbing aerosol; black carbon; brown carbon; dust; sun sky radiometer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; RADIOMETERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VOLUME FRACTION;

ABSORBING AEROSOL; BLACK CARBON; BROWN CARBONS; GROUND-BASED REMOTE SENSING; LIGHT ABSORBING AEROSOLS; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; SPECTRAL REFRACTIVE INDICES; SUN-SKY RADIOMETERS;

AEROSOLS;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL; CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRACTIONATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84880912741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50356     Document Type: Article

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