Assessment of long scale plume transport to the US East coast using coordinated CREST lidar network and synergistic AERONET and satellite measurements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8894, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Moshary, Fred ^a   Cordero, Lina ^a   Wu, Yonghua ^a   Gross, Barry ^a   Orozco, Daniel ^b   Sawamura, Patricia ^b   Hoff, Raymond M ^b   Delgado, Ruben ^b   Su, Jia ^c   Leavor, Kevin ^c   Lee, Robert B ^c   McCormick, M Pat ^c  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol plumes; Dust; Lidar Network; Smoke; Transport

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PLUME; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TRANSPORT; VERTICAL STRATIFICATION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; VOLUME SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AIR QUALITY; DUST; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SMOKE;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 84890507737     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2029281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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