Articles | Volume 9, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1925-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1925-2016
Research article
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29 Apr 2016
Research article |  | 29 Apr 2016

A new method for estimating aerosol mass flux in the urban surface layer using LAS technology

Renmin Yuan, Tao Luo, Jianning Sun, Hao Liu, Yunfei Fu, and Zhien Wang

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Atmospheric aerosol has a great influence on the natural environment. Despite consistent research efforts, there are still uncertainties in our understanding of its effects due to poor knowledge of aerosol vertical transport. In this paper, a new method for measuring atmospheric aerosol mass vertical transport flux is developed based on the similarity theory, the theory of light propagation, and the observations and studies of the atmospheric equivalent refractive index.