Measurement and analysis of surface aerosol optical properties over urban Nanjing in the Chinese Yangtze River Delta

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 542, Issue , 2016, Pages 277-291

  Yu, Xingna ^a   Ma, Jia ^a   Raghavendra Kumar, K ^a   Zhu, Bin ^a   An, Junlin ^a   He, Jiaqi ^a   Li, Mei ^b  

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

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Absorption coefficient; Haze pollution; Meteorological variables; Nanjing; Scattering coefficient; Single scattering albedo

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION; SOLAR RADIATION; URBAN GROWTH; WIND;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; HAZE POLLUTIONS; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; NANJING; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HAZE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MEGACITY; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SCATTERING;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HAZE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCATTERING COEFFICIENT; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; WIND;

CHINA; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU]; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 84945387935     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.079     Document Type: Article

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