Multi-year investigations of near surface and columnar aerosols over Dibrugarh, northeastern location of India: Heterogeneity in source impacts

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1714-1724

  Gogoi, Mukunda M ^a   Pathak, Binita ^b   Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Bhuyan, Pradip K ^b   Babu, S Suresh ^a   Bhuyan, Kalyan ^b   Kalita, Gayatri ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b DIBRUGARH UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Elevated aerosols; Extinction coefficient; MWR; QCM

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION MODES; AEROSOL MASS CONCENTRATION; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL PROPERTIES; ELEVATED AEROSOLS; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; FREE TROPOSPHERE; IMPACTORS; INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS; MASS CONCENTRATION; MASS FRACTION; MEAN VALUES; MULTIWAVELENGTH SOLAR RADIOMETERS; MWR; NEAR-SURFACE; POTENTIAL SOURCES; PRE-MONSOON; QCM; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL DEPENDENCE; TRAJECTORY CLUSTERING;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); QUARTZ; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCES; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; RADIOMETER; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COLUMNAR AEROSOL; INDIA; MULTIWAVELENGTH SOLAR RADIOMETER; NEAR SURFACE AEROSOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE; RADIATION DETECTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

ASSAM; DIBRUGARH; INDIA;

EID: 79951724867     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.12.056     Document Type: Article

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