Tethered balloon-based black carbon profiles within the lower troposphere of Shanghai in the 2013 East China smog

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2015, Pages 327-338

  Li, Juan ^a   Fu, Qingyan ^a   Huo, Juntao ^a   Wang, Dongfang ^a   Yang, Wen ^b   Bian, Qinggen ^a   Duan, Yusen ^a   Zhang, Yihua ^a   Pan, Jun ^a   Lin, Yanfen ^a   Huang, Kan ^c   Bai, Zhipeng ^b   Wang, Sheng Hsiang ^d   Fu, Joshua S ^c   Louie, Peter K K ^e  

^a Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center   (China)

^b CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c University of Tennessee   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Haze; Shanghai; Tethered balloon; Vertical profile

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; MIXING; POLLUTION; TROPOSPHERE;

BLACK CARBON; HAZE; SHANGHAI; TETHERED BALLOON; VERTICAL PROFILE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

BLACK CARBON;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BALLOON OBSERVATION; BLACK CARBON; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIURNAL VARIATION; EPISODIC EVENT; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HAZE; INSTRUMENTATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIATIVE FORCING; SMOG; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND PROFILE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HEATING; HEIGHT; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOG; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84949529844     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.08.096     Document Type: Article

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