Black carbon aerosols over Manora Peak in the Indian Himalayan foothills: Implications for climate forcing

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Srivastava, A K ^a   Ram, K ^c   Pant, P ^b   Hegde, P ^d   Joshi, Hema ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b ARYABHATTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCES ARIES   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

aerosol optical depth; black carbon; Himalayas; radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857938323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014002     Document Type: Article

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