Airborne measurements of aerosol scattering properties above the MABL over Bay of Bengal during W-ICARB - Characteristics and spatial gradients

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 895-908

  Sreekanth, V ^a   Moorthy, Krishna K ^a   Satheesh, S K ^b   Babu, Suresh S ^a   Nair, Vijayakumar S ^a   Niranjan, K ^c  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c ANDHRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure (Aerosols and particles)

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE SENSING; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYER; GPS; RADIOSONDE; SURFACE WIND; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 79957811954     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-29-895-2011     Document Type: Article

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