Seasonal and long term variations of aerosol content in the atmospheric mixing region at a tropical station on the Arabian sea-coast

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-25

  Parameswaran, K ^a   Rajan, Rekha ^a   Vijayakumar, G ^a   Rajeev, K ^a   Krishna Moorthy, K ^a   Nair, Prabha R ^a   Satheesh, S K ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

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EID: 0001780735     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(97)00096-5     Document Type: Article

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