Enhanced aerosol loading over Arabian Sea during the pre-monsoon season: Natural or anthropogenic?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2002, Pages

  Satheesh, S K ^a   Srinivasan, J ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DUST; SURFACE WATERS;

AEROSOL LOADING; ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; INDIAN SUBCONTINENTS; RADIATIVE BALANCE; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SEA SALT AEROSOL; SEA SURFACE WIND; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 0037107289     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015687     Document Type: Article

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