Measurements of aerosol optical depth over Arabian Sea during summer monsoon season

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Vinoj, V ^a   Satheesh, S K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; GEOPHYSICS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WIND;

MONSOONS; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; ARABIAN SEA MONSOON EXPERIMENTS; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; SEA-SURFACE WIND SPEED; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; WAVELENGTH EXPONENT;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OPTICAL DEPTH;

ARABIAN SEA;

EID: 0043202620     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016664     Document Type: Article

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