Aerosol microphysics over a tropical coastal station inferred from the spectral dependence of Angstrom wavelength exponent and inversion of spectral aerosol optical depths

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 17-18, 2009, Pages 1846-1857

  Beegum, S Naseema ^a   Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Babu, S Suresh ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol microphysics; Aerosol optical depth; Angstrom exponent; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL PROPERTIES; ANGSTROM EXPONENT; CHEMICAL SPECIES; COASTAL SITES; COASTAL STATION; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; MICROPHYSICS; NUMERICAL INVERSION; SEASONAL CHANGES; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES; WAVELENGTH DOMAINS; WAVELENGTH EXPONENT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICS; SIZE DETERMINATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 71749086472     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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