Atmospheric Brown Clouds in the Himalayas: First two years of continuous observations at the Nepal Climate Observatory-Pyramid (5079 m)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 7515-7531

  Bonasoni, P ^a,d   Laj, P ^b   Marinoni, A ^a   Sprenger, M ^c   Angelini, F ^d   Arduini, J ^e   Bonafe U ^a   Calzolari, F ^a   Colombo, T ^f   Decesari, S ^a   Di Biagio, C ^g   Di Sarra, A G ^g   Evangelisti, F ^a   Duchi, R ^a   Facchini, M C ^a   Fuzzi, S ^a   Gobbi, G P ^d   Maione, M ^e   Panday, A ^h   Roccato, F ^a   Sellegri, K ⁱ   Venzac, H ^b   Verza, G P ^d   Villani, P ^b   Vuillermoz, E ^d   Cristofanelli, P ^a   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^f CNMCA   (Italy)

^g ENEA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLOUD; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WIND VELOCITY;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 77956506238     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-7515-2010     Document Type: Article

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