Chemical composition of precipitation at background level

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 108-113

  Das, Namrata ^a   Das, Ruby ^a   Chaudhury, Gautam Roy ^a   Das, Surendra N ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF MINERALS AND MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Crustal and marine contribution; Dust fall; Enrichment; Rainwater composition

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND LEVEL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CORRELATION STUDIES; CRUSTAL AND MARINE CONTRIBUTION; EAST COAST; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MULTIPLE SOURCE; VOLUME-WEIGHTED MEANS;

CALCIUM; DUST; IONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SODIUM CHLORIDE;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DUST; PH; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINWATER;

ASIA; BHUBANESWAR; EURASIA; INDIA; ORISSA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70649111308     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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