Climatic analysis of satellite aerosol data on variations of submicron aerosols over East China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2015, Pages 392-398

  Tan, Chenghao ^a   Zhao, Tianliang ^a   Xu, Xiaofeng ^a   Liu, Jane ^b,c   Zhang, Lei ^a   Tang, Lili ^d  

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

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Environmental Monitoring Center of Jiangsu Province   (China)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Interannual variation; MODIS; Submicron particles; The East Asian monsoon

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROMETERS;

AEROSOL MASS CONCENTRATION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MODIS; SUB-MICRON PARTICLES;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; HAZE; MODIS; MONSOON; PARTICLE SIZE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HAZE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROMETER; SUMMER;

CHINA;

EID: 84949529628     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.03.054     Document Type: Article

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