Insight into wintertime aerosol characteristics over Beijing

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 121, Issue PA, 2014, Pages 63-71

  Zhang, Xiaolin ^a,b,c   Mao, Mao ^a   Berg, Matthew J ^c   Sun, Wenbo ^d,e  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Beijing urban area; Haze episode; Microphysical and optical properties

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL CHARACTERISTICS; HAZE EPISODE; URBAN AREAS;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 84908452080     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2014.09.017     Document Type: Article

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