Latitudinal distribution of aerosol black carbon and its mass fraction to composite aerosols over peninsular India during winter season

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Babu, S Suresh ^a   Badarinath, K V S ^b   Sunilkumar, S V ^a   Kiranchand, T R ^b   Ahmed, Y Nazeer ^c  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b NATIONAL REMOTE SENSING AGENCY   (India)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BLACK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

AEROSOL BLACK CARBON; COMPOSITE AEROSOLS; LATITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; MASS CONCENTRATION; MASS FRACTION; WINTER SEASON;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WINTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34250773370     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL029150     Document Type: Article

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