Wintertime spatial characteristics of boundary layer aerosols over peninsular India

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Sunilkumar, S V ^a   Pillai, Preetha S ^a   Parameswaran, K ^a   Nair, Prabha R ^a   Ahmed, Y Nazeer ^b   Ramgopal, K ^b   Narasimhulu, K ^b   Reddy, R Ramakrishna ^b   Vinoj, V ^c   Satheesh, S K ^c   Niranjan, Kandula ^d   Rao, B Malleswara ^d   Brahmanandam, P S ^d   Saha, Auromeet ^e   Badarinath, K V S ^f   Kiranchand, T R ^f   Latha, K Madhavi ^f  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^d ANDHRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e ARYABHATTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCES ARIES   (India)

^f NATIONAL REMOTE SENSING AGENCY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY LAYER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WINTER;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 21244475939     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JD005520     Document Type: Article

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