Annual and seasonal variability of ambient aerosols over an urban region in western India

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1200-1208

  Sunder Raman, Ramya ^a   Ramachandran, S ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Ahmedabad (India); Annual and seasonal variations; Meteorology; Source contribution; Total suspended particles (TSP)

Indexed keywords

AHMEDABAD (INDIA); AMBIENT AEROSOLS; ARABIAN SEA; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; EMISSIONS FACTORS; FACTOR CONTRIBUTION; HIGH WIND SPEED; KRUSKAL; MARINE AEROSOLS; MEDIAN CONCENTRATION; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MOISTURE LADEN WINDS; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL TESTS; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; POST-MONSOON; PRE-MONSOON; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS; SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION; TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICLES; URBAN LOCATIONS; URBAN REGIONS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM; WIND EFFECTS;

DUST;

AEROSOL; ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOMASS BURNING; DUST; MONSOON; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN REGION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMIDITY; INDIA; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; WIND;

AHMEDABAD; ARABIAN SEA; GUJARAT; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 76449107561     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.12.008     Document Type: Article

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