Aerosol radiative forcing over a tropical urban site in India

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Pandithurai, G ^a   Pinker, R T ^b   Takamura, T ^c   Devara, P C S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OZONE; RADIATION; SCATTERING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER; AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

RADIATIVE FLUXES; SKY RADIANCE; SURFACE FORCING; TOP-OF-THE-ATMOSPHERE (TOA);

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; URBAN GROWTH;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; RADIATIVE FORCING; TROPICAL REGION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL RADIATIVE FORCING; ASYMMETRY PARAMETER; INDIAN OCEAN EXPERIMENTS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 6044226859     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019702     Document Type: Article

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