Airborne dust and aerosols description using lidar backscatter
Document ID: 229
Li, Guangkun1
Verghese, Sachin John1
Philbrick, C. Russell1
Fitz, Dennis2
Pankratz, David2
1 The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Electrical Engineering, University Park, PA, U.S.A.
2 University of California, Riverside, CERT, Riverside, CA, U.S.A.
Presented: 25th Annual Conference on Atmospheric Transmission and Radiance Models
The Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts, 25-27 June 2002
Abstract
Research Project: Evaluation of Geologic Dust Entrainment, Removal and Transport Mechanisms
Objective: Investigate the discrepancies between ambient geologic dust measurements and the contributions to source inventories for PM10 and PM2.5.