Source categories and contribution of biomass smoke to organic aerosol over the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 113-123

  Sang, Xuefang ^a,d   Zhang, Zhisheng ^a   Chan, Chuenyu ^b   Engling, Guenter ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anhydrosugars; Biomass burning; Levoglucosan; Long range transport; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC CARBON; SMOKE;

ANHYDROSUGARS; BIOMASS-BURNING; LEVOGLUCOSAN; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

BIOMASS;

LEVOGLUCOSAN;

AEROSOL; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; REGIONAL PATTERN; SMOKE; SUBURBAN AREA;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CLIMATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LOW TEMPERATURE; PLANT RESIDUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WEATHER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84882716577     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.12.012     Document Type: Article

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