Ground-based aerosol climatology of China: Aerosol optical depths from the China Aerosol Remote Sensing Network (CARSNET) 2002-2013

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 7619-7652

  Che, H ^a,b   Zhang, X Y ^a,b   Xia, X ^c,d   Goloub, P ^e   Holben, B ^f   Zhao, H ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Zhang, X C ^a   Wang, H ^a   Blarel, L ^e   Damiri, B ^g   Zhang, R ^c   Deng, X ^a   Ma, Y ^a   Wang, T ^b   Geng, F ^h   Qi, B ⁱ   Zhu, J ^c   Yu, J ^j   Chen, Q ^j   Shi, G ^c   more..

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

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

^e UNIV LILLE   (France)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g CIMEL Electronique   (France)

^h SMB   (China)

ⁱ Hangzhou Meteorological Bureau   (China)

^j CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; OPTICAL DEPTH;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 85006918205     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-7619-2015     Document Type: Article

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