Dust aerosol properties and radiative forcing observed in spring during 2001–2014 over urban Beijing, China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 15432-15442

  Yu, Xingna ^a   Lü, Rui ^a   Kumar, K Raghavendra ^a   Ma, Jia ^a,c   Zhang, Qiuju ^b   Jiang, Yilun ^c   Kang, Na ^a   Yang, Suying ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Li, Mei ^d  

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

^b Baoshan District Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c Guangzhou Hexin Instrument Company Limited   (China)

^d JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aerosol radiative forcing; AOD; Beijing; Dust aerosols; Forcing efficiency; Single scattering albedo

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALBEDO; DUST; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE FORCING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCATTERING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; URBAN AREA;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; MONGOLIA; NEI MONGGOL;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; DUST;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL; URBANIZATION;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; BEIJING; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; SEASONS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84974853059     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-6727-9     Document Type: Article

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