Optical properties of the South Asian winter haze at a tropical coastal site in India

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 54, Issue , 2012, Pages 449-455

  Malleswara Rao, B ^a   Niranjan, K ^b  

^a GITAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ANDHRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical depth; Ground based remote sensing; Solar radiometry; South Asian winter haze; Spectral curvature

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; GROUND-BASED REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIOMETRY; SOUTH ASIAN WINTER HAZE; SPECTRAL CURVATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

WAVELENGTH;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COASTAL ZONE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HAZE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MIE THEORY; MODEL VALIDATION; MONSOON; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOOT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION; WINTER;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HAZE; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; INDIA; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; WINTER;

ANDHRA PRADESH; BAY OF BENGAL; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; VISAKHAPATNAM;

EID: 84859495260     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.02.016     Document Type: Article

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