Premonsoon aerosol mass loadings and size distributions over the Arabian Sea and the tropical Indian Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 24, 2002, Pages AAC-1-1-AAC-1-21

  Ramachandran, S ^a   Jayaraman, A ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

0305 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801); 0345 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Pollution urban and regional (0305); 0360 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Transmission and scattering of radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444309763     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JD002386     Document Type: Article

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