Tracking the Saharan Air Layer with shipborne lidar across the tropical Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1044-1050

  Kanitz, T ^a   Engelmann, R ^a   Heinold, B ^a   Baars, H ^a   Skupin, A ^a   Ansmann, A ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

COSMO MUSCAT simulations of the vertical dust concentration; shipborne lidar measurements above the Atlantic; transatlantic transport of Saharan dust

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; ATMOSPHERIC RESIDENCE TIME; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; EXTINCTION-TO-BACKSCATTER RATIO; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; LINEAR DEPOLARIZATION RATIOS; SAHARAN DUST;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BACKSCATTERING; DUST; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; SHIPS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AEROSOL; BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; DUST; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; WAVELENGTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SAHARA;

EID: 84896744715     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058780     Document Type: Article

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