Aerosol climatology over an urban site, Tirupati (India) derived from columnar and surface measurements: First time results obtained from a 30-day campaign

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1727-1738

  Reddy, B Suresh Kumar ^a   Kumar, K Raghavendra ^a   Balakrishnaiah, G ^a   Gopal, K Rama ^a   Reddy, R R ^a   Reddy, L S S ^a   Narasimhulu, K ^b   Rao, S Vijaya Bhaskara ^c   Kiran Kumar, T ^c   Balanarayana, C ^c   Moorthy, K Krishna ^d   Babu, S Suresh ^d  

^a SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Government First Grade College   (India)

^c SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

ngstr m parameters; Aerosol optical depth; Black carbon aerosol mass concentration; Total mass concentration of aerosols

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL MASS CONCENTRATION; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AETHALOMETER; AIR TEMPERATURE; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL MASS CONCENTRATION; COARSE MODE; DIURNAL VARIATION; MASS CONCENTRATION; MASS FRACTION; MEAN VALUES; NEAR-SURFACE; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SCATTER PLOTS; SUN PHOTOMETERS; SURFACE MASS; TOTAL MASS; URBAN LOCATIONS; URBAN SITE; WAVELENGTH EXPONENT;

CLIMATOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FOG; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; QUARTZ; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 79961029120     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2011.03.015     Document Type: Article

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