Black carbon aerosols over coastal Antarctica and its scavenging by snow during the Southern Hemispheric summer

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Chaubey, Jai Prakash ^a   Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Babu, S Suresh ^a   Nair, Vijayakumar S ^a   Tiwari, Anoop ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ANTARCTIC AND OCEAN RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FOG; FOSSIL FUELS; ORGANIC CARBON; SEA LEVEL; SNOW; STORMS;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; AEROSOL BLACK CARBON; ANGSTROM EXPONENT; ANTARCTICA; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; MASS CONCENTRATION; MASS MIXING RATIO; MEAN SEA LEVEL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SPECTRAL VALUE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ALBEDO; BLACK CARBON; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOSSIL FUEL; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; ORGANIC CARBON; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SNOW; SNOWSTORM; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LARSEMANN HILLS; MAITRI;

EID: 77953148141     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013381     Document Type: Article

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