Free tropospheric black carbon aerosol measurements using high altitude balloon: Do BC layers build their own homes up in the atmosphere?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Babu, S Suresh ^a   Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Manchanda, Ravi K ^b   Sinha, Puna Ram ^b   Satheesh, S K ^c   Vajja, Dinkar Prasad ^a   Srinivasan, S ^b   Kumar, V H Arun ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOG; TROPOSPHERE;

ALTITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC IMPACT; ATMOSPHERIC WARMING; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; CENTRAL INDIA; HIGH ALTITUDE; HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOONS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LAPSE RATE; MULTIPLE-PEAK; SHARP INCREASE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC LAPSE RATE; BLACK CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 79955365127     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046654     Document Type: Article

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