Aerosol spectral optical depths over the Bay of Bengal: Role of transport

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Babu, S Suresh ^a   Satheesh, S K ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATOLOGY; MASS TRANSFER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; AEROSOLS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

MONSOONS; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AIR TRAJECTORIES; BAY OF BENGAL; OPTICAL DEPTH; SOURCE REGION; SOUTH CHINA; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES; SUB-MICRON SIZE RANGE;

GEOPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OPTICAL DEPTH;

BAY OF BENGAL;

EID: 0042200336     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016520     Document Type: Article

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