List Of Contributors |
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Preface |
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Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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1 Primary and Secondary Sources of Atmospheric Aerosol |
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1.2 A General Classification of Aerosol Sources |
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1.3 Primary Aerosols of Natural Origin |
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1.3.5 Volcanic Dust in the Troposphere |
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1.4 Secondary Aerosols of Natural Origin |
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1.4.1 Natural Sulfate Particles from Tropospheric SO2 and Sulfur Compounds |
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1.4.2 Natural Nitrate Particles from Tropospheric Nitrogen Oxides |
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1.4.3 Organic Aerosols from Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds |
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1.4.4 Sulfate Particles from Marine and Volcanic SO2 Formed in the Stratosphere |
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1.5 Primary Anthropogenic Aerosols |
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1.5.2 Anthropogenic Aerosols from Fossil Fuel Combustion and Carbonaceous (Soot) Particles |
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1.5.3 Anthropogenic Aerosols from Waste and Biomass Burning |
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1.6 Secondary Anthropogenic Aerosols |
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1.6.1 Secondary Particles from SO2 |
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1.6.2 Secondary Particles from NOx |
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1.6.3 Secondary Organic Aerosols |
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1.7 Concluding Remarks on the Global Annual Emission Fluxes of Natural and Anthropogenic Aerosol Mass |
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2 Aerosol Nucleation in the Terrestrial Atmosphere |
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2.2 Theoretical Basis of Nucleation and Growth of New Particles in the Atmosphere |
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2.2.1 Introduction to Nucleation Theories Useful in Atmospheric Sciences |
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2.2.1.1 The Unary System Model |
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2.2.1.2 The H2SO4-H2O Binary System |
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2.2.1.3 The H2SO4 -NH3 -H20 Ternary System |
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2.2.1.4 The Role of Amines |
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2.2.1.5 The Ion-Induced Nucleation |
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2.2.2 The Growth of New Particles |
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2.2.2.1 The Condensation Process |
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2.3 Observation and Detection Tools |
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2.3.1.1 Physical Characterization |
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2.3.1.2 Chemical Characterization |
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2.3.2 Metrics for Characterizing New Particle Formation Events |
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2.3.3 Occurrence of New Particle Formation Events in the Troposphere |
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2.3.3.1 Pristine and Polluted Continental Boundary Layer |
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2.3.3.2 Coastal and Marine Boundary Layer Sites |
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2.3.3.3 High-Altitude Environments and Free Troposphere |
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2.4 Precursor Candidates for Nucleation and Early Growth from Observations |
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2.4.1 Continental Planetary Boundary Layer |
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2.4.2 Marine Planetary Boundary Layer |
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2.5 Parameterizations and Chamber Experiments |
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2.6 Importance of Nucleation for the Production of Aerosols and CCN at the Global Scale |
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3 Coagulation, Condensation, Dry and Wet Deposition, and Cloud Droplet Formation in the Atmospheric Aerosol Life Cycle |
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3.2 Physical Growth Processes |
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3.2.1 Brownian Coagulation |
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3.2.2 Growth by Condensation of Gases onto Preexisting Particles |
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3.2.4 Hygroscopic Growth of Particles by Water Vapor Condensation |
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133 | (6) |
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3.3 Aerosol Removal Processes |
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3.3.1 Dry Deposition of Aerosol Particles |
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141 | (3) |
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3.3.2 Wet Deposition of Aerosol Particles |
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3.3.2.1 In-Cloud Scavenging (Rainout) |
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145 | (2) |
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3.3.2.2 Interstitial Aerosol Scavenging by Cloud Droplets |
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147 | (2) |
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3.3.2.3 Precipitation Scavenging |
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149 | (8) |
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3.3.2.4 Wet Deposition in Fogs |
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157 | (1) |
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3.3.2.5 Nucleation of Ice Particles |
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3.4 Formation of Cloud Particles |
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3.4.1 Water Vapor Condensation |
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3.4.3 The Cloud Condensation Nuclei |
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4 Chemical Composition of Aerosols of Different Origin |
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4.2 Global Distribution and Climatology of the Main Aerosol Chemical Constituents |
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4.2.1 Definition of Primary and Secondary Inorganic and Organic Aerosol Compounds |
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4.2.2 Aerosol Global Budgets |
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186 | (6) |
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186 | (1) |
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4.2.2.2 Black Carbon Aerosol |
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4.2.2.4 Nitrogen Aerosol Species |
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189 | (2) |
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4.2.3 Main Regional Differences and Seasonal Variations of Aerosol Chemical Composition |
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4.2.3.3 Continental Regional Background Aerosol |
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4.2.3.4 Marine Background Aerosol |
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4.3 Size Distributions of Aerosol Chemical Compounds |
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196 | (9) |
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4.3.1 Aerosol Size-Resolved Chemical Composition in Polluted Areas |
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4.3.1.1 Secondary Inorganic Aerosol (Ammonium Sulfate and Nitrate) |
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4.3.2 Aerosol Size-Resolved Chemical Composition in Unperturbed Environments |
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4.3.2.2 High Altitude Mountain Regions |
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4.3.3 Long-Term Changes of Aerosol Chemical Components |
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4.4 Issues Related to Aerosol Chemical Composition |
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4.4.1 Characterization of the Aerosol Carbonaceous Fraction |
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4.4.2 Sources of BC and OA |
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4.4.3 Effect of Organic and Inorganic Chemical Composition on Aerosol Activity as Cloud Condensation Nuclei and Ice Nuclei |
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4.4.3.1 Cloud Condensation Nuclei |
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5 Aerosol Optics |
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223 | (1) |
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224 | (5) |
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6 Aerosol Models |
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247 | (2) |
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6.2 Modeling of the Optical and Microphysical Characteristics of Atmospheric Aerosol |
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6.2.1 The 6S Code Aerosol Extinction Models |
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254 | (8) |
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6.2.1.1 The Four 6S Basic Aerosol Components |
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254 | (4) |
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6.2.1.2 The Three 6S Aerosol Models |
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258 | (4) |
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6.2.2 The 6S Additional Aerosol Models |
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262 | (9) |
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6.2.3 The 6S Modified (M-Type) Aerosol Models |
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6.2.4 The OPAC Aerosol Models |
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6.2.5 The Aerosol Models of Shettle and Fenn (1979) |
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288 | (7) |
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6.2.6 The Seven Additional Aerosol Models of Tomasi et al. (2013) |
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295 | (9) |
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6.2.7 The Polar Aerosol Models |
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304 | (2) |
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6.3 General Remarks on the Aerosol Particle Number, Surface, and Volume Size-Distribution Functions |
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6.3.1 The Aerosol Particle Number Size-Distribution Function |
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310 | (4) |
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6.3.2 The Aerosol Surface, Volume, and Mass Size Distributions |
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314 | (3) |
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6.4 Size-Distribution Characteristics of Various Aerosol Types |
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6.4.1 Remote Continental Aerosols |
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317 | (2) |
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6.4.2 Free Tropospheric Aerosols |
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319 | (1) |
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6.4.3 Rural-Continental Aerosols |
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319 | (3) |
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6.4.4 Continental-Polluted Aerosols |
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322 | (1) |
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6.4.5 Maritime Clean Aerosols |
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322 | (2) |
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6.4.6 Maritime-Polluted Aerosols |
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324 | (1) |
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6.4.8 Biomass Burning Aerosols |
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6.4.10 Polar Arctic Aerosols |
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328 | (1) |
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6.4.11 Polar Antarctic Aerosols |
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329 | (2) |
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6.4.12 Stratospheric Volcanic Aerosols |
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7 Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosol |
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7.2 Ground-Based Aerosol Remote Sensing Measurements |
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342 | (38) |
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7.2.1 The Multispectral Sun-Photometry Method |
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345 | (28) |
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7.2.1.1 Calibration of a Sun Photometer Using the Langley Plot Method |
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346 | (2) |
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7.2.1.2 Determination of Aerosol Optical Thickness |
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348 | (12) |
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7.2.1.3 Determination of Aerosol Optical Parameters from Sun-Photometer Measurements |
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360 | (10) |
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7.2.1.4 Relationship between the Fine Particle Fraction and Angstrom Wavelength Exponent |
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370 | (3) |
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7.2.2 Measurements of Volume Extinction, Scattering, and Absorption Coefficients at Ground Level Using Nephelometer and PSAP Techniques |
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373 | (2) |
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7.2.3 Vertical Profiles of Backscatter and Extinction Coefficients from LIDAR Measurements |
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375 | (3) |
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7.2.4 Measurements of the Aerosol Size Distribution Using an Optical Particle Counter |
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378 | (2) |
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7.3 Airborne Remote Sensing Measurements of Aerosol Optical Properties |
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380 | (23) |
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7.3.1 Main Results Derived from the Second Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition (AASE-II) Measurements |
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385 | (1) |
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7.3.2 Airborne Remote Sensing Measurements during the Army LIDAR Verification Experiment (ALIVE) |
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386 | (1) |
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7.3.3 Airborne Measurements Performed during the Sulfate Clouds and Radiation-Atlantic (SCAR-A) Experiment |
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386 | (1) |
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7.3.4 Airborne Measurements Conducted during the Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observational Experiment (TARFOX) |
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387 | (1) |
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7.3.5 The Aerosol Characterization Experiment 2 (ACE-2) Airborne Remote Sensing Measurements |
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388 | (3) |
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7.3.6 Airborne Remote Sensing Measurements during the Puerto Rico Dust Experiment (PRIDE) |
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391 | (1) |
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7.3.7 The ARCTAS/ARCPAC Airborne Remote Sensing Measurements in the Western Arctic |
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392 | (7) |
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7.3.8 The Airborne Measurements Conducted during the Pan-Arctic Measurements and Arctic Regional Climate Model Intercomparison Project (PAM-ARCMIP) |
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399 | (4) |
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7.4 Satellite-Borne Aerosol Remote Sensing Measurements |
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403 | (19) |
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7.4.1 Satellite Instrumentation |
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403 | (8) |
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411 | (4) |
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7.4.2.1 The Algorithms Based on the Single-View Spectral Observations |
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411 | (1) |
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7.4.2.2 Double-View Spectral Observations |
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412 | (1) |
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7.4.2.3 Multiview Spectral Observations |
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413 | (1) |
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7.4.2.4 Multiview Spectral and Polarimetric Observations |
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413 | (1) |
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7.4.2.5 Retrievals over Ocean Using Multiangle Polarimetric Observations |
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414 | (1) |
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7.4.2.6 Retrievals over Land |
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414 | (1) |
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7.4.2.7 Aerosol Retrieval Using an Artificial Neural Network Technique |
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414 | (1) |
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7.4.3 Examples of Aerosol Retrievals |
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415 | (24) |
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7.4.3.1 Global View of Aerosol Distribution from Passive Sensor |
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415 | (1) |
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7.4.3.2 Aerosol Retrieval from Different Sensors and Retrieval Algorithms |
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416 | (3) |
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7.4.3.3 Time-Resolved Observation from Geostationary Platform |
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419 | (2) |
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7.4.3.4 Atmospheric Anatomy from the Active Sensing Platform |
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421 | (1) |
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423 | (4) |
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427 | (10) |
8 Aerosol and Climate Change: Direct and Indirect Aerosol Effects on Climate |
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437 | (2) |
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8.2 The Instantaneous DARF Effects at the ToA and BoA Levels and in the Atmosphere |
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439 | (37) |
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8.2.1 The Spectral Characteristics of Solar Radiation |
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439 | (4) |
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8.2.2 Vertical Features of Aerosol Volume Extinction Coefficient |
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443 | (1) |
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8.2.3 Aerosol Extinction Models and Optical Characteristics |
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444 | (3) |
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8.2.4 Modeling the Underlying Surface Reflectance Characteristics |
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447 | (12) |
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8.2.5 Calculations of Instantaneous DARF Terms at the ToA and BoA Levels and within the Atmosphere |
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459 | (4) |
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8.2.6 Dependence Features of Instantaneous DARF Terms on Aerosol Optical Parameters and Surface Reflectance |
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463 | (13) |
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8.2.6.1 Dependence of Instantaneous DARF on Aerosol Optical Thickness |
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464 | (3) |
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8.2.6.2 Dependence of Instantaneous DARF on Aerosol Single Scattering Albedo |
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467 | (4) |
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8.2.6.3 Dependence of Instantaneous DARF on Underlying Surface Albedo |
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471 | (3) |
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8.2.6.4 Dependence of Instantaneous DARF on Solar Zenith Angle |
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474 | (2) |
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8.3 The Diurnally Average DARF Induced by Various Aerosol Types over Ocean and Land Surfaces |
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476 | (49) |
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8.3.1 Description of the Calculation Method Based on the Field Measurements of Aerosol Optical Parameters |
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478 | (20) |
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8.3.2 Calculations of the Diurnally Average DARF Terms and Efficiency Parameters for Eleven Aerosol Types |
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498 | (55) |
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8.3.2.1 Remote Continental Aerosols |
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498 | (2) |
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8.3.2.2 Rural-Continental Aerosols |
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500 | (2) |
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8.3.2.3 Free Tropospheric Aerosols |
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502 | (2) |
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8.3.2.4 Continental-Polluted Aerosols |
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504 | (2) |
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8.3.2.5 Maritime Clean Aerosols |
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506 | (2) |
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8.3.2.6 Maritime-Continental Aerosols |
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508 | (4) |
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512 | (4) |
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8.3.2.8 Biomass Burning Aerosols |
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516 | (3) |
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8.3.2.9 Urban and Industrial Aerosols |
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519 | (3) |
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522 | (3) |
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8.3.2.11 Stratospheric Volcanic Aerosols |
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525 | (1) |
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8.4 Variations of DARF Efficiency as a Function of Aerosol Single Scattering Albedo |
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525 | (4) |
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8.5 Concluding Remarks on the DARF Effects over the Global Scale |
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529 | (2) |
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8.6 On the Indirect Aerosol Effects Acting in the Earth's Climate System |
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531 | (6) |
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537 | (1) |
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538 | (3) |
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541 | (12) |
9 Aerosol and Air Quality |
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553 | (44) |
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553 | (7) |
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9.1.1 Aerosol Air Pollution |
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553 | (1) |
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9.1.2 Aerosol Sources and Size Distribution in Relation to Human Health Effects |
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553 | (2) |
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9.1.3 Aerosol Chemical Composition and Health Effects |
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555 | (2) |
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9.1.4 Atmospheric Aerosols, Air Pollution, and Climate Change |
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557 | (1) |
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9.1.5 Aerosol Load in Different Areas of the World |
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558 | (2) |
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9.2 Aerosol Load as Derived from Satellite-Based Measurements |
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560 | (17) |
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9.2.1 VIS/NIR/SWIR Multispectral Satellite Observations for Evaluating PM Concentrations: An Example over the Northern Italy Area |
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560 | (9) |
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9.2.1.1 MODIS-Based PM Concentration Estimates at the Surface |
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561 | (2) |
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9.2.1.2 Data Set and Results |
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563 | (3) |
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9.2.1.3 Satellite PM Multiannual Monitoring: Looking for Compliance to European Air Quality Directive - |
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566 | (3) |
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9.2.2 PM Estimations over Osaka (Japan) Based on Satellite Observations |
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569 | (8) |
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569 | (2) |
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9.2.2.2 Aerosol Remote Sensing |
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571 | (3) |
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9.2.2.3 Estimation of PM from Satellite-Based AOT |
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574 | (3) |
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9.3 Characterization of Mass Concentration and Optical Properties of Desert Dust in Different Areas of the Earth |
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577 | (12) |
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9.3.1 Dust Storms in the Southwestern United States |
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578 | (1) |
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9.3.2 Saharan Dust Transport over the Southeastern United States and the Caribbean Region |
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579 | (1) |
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9.3.3 Saharan Dust Transport over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Western Coast of Africa |
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580 | (1) |
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9.3.4 Saharan Dust Transport Toward Southern Europe |
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581 | (3) |
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9.3.5 Saharan Dust Transport Toward the Middle Eastern and the Persian Gulf |
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584 | (1) |
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9.3.6 Asian Dust Transport Over Central Asia and China |
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584 | (4) |
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9.3.7 Asian Dust Transport Over Korea and Japan |
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588 | (1) |
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9.3.8 Desert Dust Transport Over Oceanic Areas |
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589 | (1) |
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589 | (1) |
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590 | (1) |
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591 | (6) |
10 Impact of the Airborne Particulate Matter on the Human Health |
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597 | (3) |
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10.2 Epidemiological Evidences |
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600 | (9) |
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10.2.1 Exacerbation of Lung Diseases |
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602 | (1) |
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10.2.2 Effects on the Cardiovascular System |
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603 | (3) |
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10.2.3 Life Expectancy and PM Concentration |
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606 | (3) |
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10.3 Toxicological Evidences |
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609 | (21) |
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10.3.1 Particle Dosimetry, Particle Deposition, and Real Exposure |
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609 | (3) |
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612 | (10) |
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10.3.2.1 Lung Inflammation |
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613 | (2) |
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10.3.2.2 Cardiovascular Damages |
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615 | (3) |
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10.3.2.3 Brain and Other Target Organs |
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618 | (4) |
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10.3.3 In Vitro Evidences |
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622 | (8) |
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10.3.3.1 Inflammatory Response |
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|
622 | (2) |
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10.3.3.2 Oxidative Stress |
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|
624 | (2) |
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626 | (1) |
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627 | (3) |
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10.4 Mechanism of Effects |
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|
630 | (7) |
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10.4.1 The Inflammatory Paradigm |
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|
630 | (2) |
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10.4.2 The Reactive Oxygen Species |
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632 | (2) |
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10.4.3 Translocation of Particles: If Yes Then Where |
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|
634 | (2) |
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10.4.4 Dimension versus Composition: Two Heads of the "PM Hydra" |
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636 | (1) |
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637 | (1) |
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|
638 | (1) |
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|
639 | (1) |
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|
639 | (6) |
11 Aerosol Impact on Cultural Heritage: Deterioration Processes and Strategies for Preventive Conservation |
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645 | (26) |
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645 | (1) |
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11.2 Monitoring for Cultural Heritage Conservation |
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|
645 | (7) |
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11.3 Damage and Black Crusts Formation on Building Materials |
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|
652 | (7) |
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11.3.1 Damage to Carbonate Stone |
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|
653 | (2) |
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11.3.2 Damage to Silicate Stone |
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655 | (1) |
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11.3.3 Anthropogenic Aerosol in Crusts |
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|
656 | (1) |
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11.3.4 Organic and Elemental Carbon |
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657 | (1) |
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11.3.5 Damage to Coastal Areas |
|
|
658 | (1) |
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11.4 Bioaerosol Effects on Cultural Heritage |
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659 | (5) |
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11.5 Guidelines for the Preventive Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Urban Areas |
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|
664 | (1) |
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665 | (1) |
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665 | (1) |
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|
666 | (5) |
Index |
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671 | |