Aerosol transport over the Gangetic basin during ISRO-GBP land campaign-II

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 431-440

  Aloysius, M ^a   Mohan, M ^a   Parameswaran, K ^a   George, S K ^a   Nair, P R ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; THERMAL POWER;

ASIA; EURASIA; GANGES BASIN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 41349095252     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-26-431-2008     Document Type: Article

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