Simultaneous Observations of Free Tropospheric Saharan Dust Layers Over Europe Monitored by a Co-Ordinated Ground-Based Lidar Network in the frame of the Earlinet Project

摘要

Atmopsheric particles and mainly the mineral dust particles, play an important role in the earth's radiation balance and climate, by scattering and absorbing, both incoming and outcoming radiation, (Seinfeld and Pandis 1998).