Optical and physical characteristics of Bay of Bengal aerosols during W-ICARB: Spatial and vertical heterogeneities in the marine atmospheric boundary layer and in the vertical column

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Beegum, S Naseema ^a   Babu, S Suresh ^a   Smirnov, Alexander ^b   John, Sherine Rachel ^a   Kumar, K Raghavendra ^c   Narasimhulu, K ^c   Dutt, C B S ^a   Nair, Vijayakumar S ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COASTAL ZONES; GAS FUEL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RADAR; TROPOSPHERE;

ACCUMULATION MODES; AEROSOL MASS; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL PROPERTIES; BACK TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; BANGLADESH; BAY OF BENGAL; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; COASTAL REGIONS; MARINE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; MASS CONCENTRATION; MASS SIZE DISTRIBUTION; MYANMARS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; RADIATION BUDGET; REGIONAL FEATURE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; VERTICAL COLUMNS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WAVELENGTH EXPONENT;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; LIDAR; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OPEN SPACE; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATION BUDGET; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRAJECTORY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

BANGLADESH; BAY OF BENGAL; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MYANMAR;

EID: 78650946428     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014094     Document Type: Article

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