Seasonal variation and difference of aerosol optical properties in columnar and surface atmospheres over Shanghai

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2015, Pages 315-326

  Cheng, Tiantao ^a   Xu, Chen ^a   Duan, Junyan ^a   Wang, Yifan ^a   Leng, Chunpeng ^a   Tao, Jun ^b   Che, Huizheng ^c   He, Qianshan ^d   Wu, Yunfei ^e   Zhang, Renjian ^e   Li, Xiang ^a   Chen, Jianmin ^a   Kong, Lingdong ^a   Yu, Xingna ^f  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^d SHANGHAI METEOROLOGICAL BUREAU   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

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

Author keywords

Aerosol; Columnar atmosphere; Optical property; Surface atmosphere

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AEROSOL SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; COARSE MODE PARTICLES; FINE-MODE PARTICLES; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SCATTERING EFFICIENCY; WAVELENGTH EXPONENT;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALBEDO; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WAVELENGTH;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; AUTUMN; CHINA; OPTICAL ROTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WINTER;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84949531046     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.05.029     Document Type: Article

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