Technical Note: One year of Raman-lidar measurements in Gual Pahari EUCAARI site close to New Delhi in India-Seasonal characteristics of the aerosol vertical structure

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4513-4524

  Komppula, M ^a   Mielonen, T ^a   Arola, A ^a   Korhonen, K ^a   Lihavainen, H ^a   Hyvarinen A P ^a   Baars, H ^b   Engelmann, R ^b   Althausen, D ^b   Ansmann, A ^b   Muller D ^b,c,g   Panwar, T S ^d   Hooda, R K ^a,d   Sharma, V P ^d   Kerminen, V M ^a,e   Lehtinen, K E J ^a,f   Viisanen, Y ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^d Energy and Resource Institute   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^g NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; BACKSCATTER; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; LIDAR; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SEASONAL VARIATION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

DELHI; INDIA; NEW DELHI;

EID: 84861547512     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-4513-2012     Document Type: Article

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