Spatial variations in aerosol characteristics and regional radiative forcing over India: Measurements and modeling of 2004 road campaign experiment

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 34, 2006, Pages 6504-6515

  Jayaraman, A ^a   Gadhavi, H ^a   Ganguly, D ^a   Misra, A ^a   Ramachandran, S ^a   Rajesh, T A ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol radiative forcing over central India; Aerosol scattering and absorption coefficients; Aerosol vertical profiles

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOMETERS; QUARTZ;

AEROSOL RADIATIVE FORCING OVER CENTRAL INDIA; AEROSOL SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; AEROSOL VERTICAL PROFILES;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PHOTOMETER; RADIATIVE FORCING; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DUST; EXPERIMENT; INDIA; MEASUREMENT; NEPHELOMETRY; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETER;

ARABIAN SEA; ASIA; BAY OF BENGAL; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33748416359     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.01.034     Document Type: Article

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