Altitude distribution of aerosols over Southeast Arabian Sea coast during pre-monsoon season: Elevated layers, long-range transport and atmospheric radiative heating

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 21-22, 2010, Pages 2597-2604

  Rajeev, K ^a   Parameswaran, K ^a   Thampi, Bijoy V ^a   Mishra, Manoj Kumar ^a   Nair, Anish Kumar M ^a   Meenu, S ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol radiative heating; Aerosols; Depolarization ratio; Elevated aerosol layer; Lidar

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL LAYERS; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AIR MASS; ALTITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; ALTITUDE PROFILES; ARABIAN SEA; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; CALIPSO; DEPOLARIZATION RATIO; EASTERN ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; LINEAR DEPOLARIZATION RATIOS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; NON-SPHERICAL; PRE-MONSOON; RADIATIVE HEATING; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; DEPOLARIZATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIANT HEATING;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ALTITUDE; LIDAR; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MONSOON; RADIATIVE FORCING;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEATING; INDIAN OCEAN; PLUME; PRE MONSOON SEASON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEASON; SOUTHEAST ARABIAN SEA; TROPOSPHERE;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 77953618278     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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