Research Article
Lidar Measurements of the Vertical Distribution of Aerosol Optical and Physical Properties over Central Asia
Table 1
Weather types with dominant synoptic scale motion1.
| Basic weather type | Extended type | Synoptic motion | Types of synoptic processes | Pollution source | Vertical uplift |
| Convective | Anticyclonic CA | Subsidence | 9 | S3 in warm half year, S4—in cold | Up to 3 km | Indifferent CI | Small-scale circulations | 12, 12a | S1 | Up to 1–3 km | Cyclonic CC | Lifting | 8 | S4 | All troposphere |
| Advective | West AW | W at 500 hPa | 5, 7, 10, and 14 | S3—7, 10, and 14 S4—5 | Up to 5–7 km and above | North AN | NW-N at 500 hPa | 6 | S4 | Up to 2–4 km | South AS | S-SW at 500 hPa | 4, 11, 13, and 13a | S1—4, 11 S2—13 and 13a | Up to 2–5 km |
| Mixed | M | Active cyclone or high frontal zone | 1, 2, 3, 9a, and 9b | S1—3 S2—1, 2 S3—9a, 9b | Up to 5–7 km and above |
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Definitions are in the text, Section 3.
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