Impact of aerosol hygroscopic growth on retrieving aerosol extinction coefficient profiles from elastic-backscatter lidar signals

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2017, Pages 12133-12143

  Zhao, Gang ^a   Zhao, Chunsheng ^a   Kuang, Ye ^a   Tao, Jiangchuan ^a   Tan, Wangshu ^a   Bian, Yuxuan ^b   Li, Jing ^a   Li, Chengcai ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; BACKSCATTER; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; HYGROSCOPICITY; LIDAR; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 85031317798     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-12133-2017     Document Type: Article

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