Influence of changes in the prevailing synoptic conditions on the response of aerosol characteristics to land- and sea-breeze circulations at a coastal station

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 145-161

  Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Pillai, Preetha S ^a   Babu, S Suresh ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol sampling; Aerosol size distribution; Aerosols and airmass types; Coastal aerosols; Land sea breeze; Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) impactor

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; METEOROLOGY; WIND EFFECTS;

AIRMASS;

COASTAL ZONES;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; BOUNDARY LAYER; COASTAL ZONE; LAND BREEZE; SEA BREEZE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0037906568     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023073929115     Document Type: Article

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