Tropospheric ozone and aerosol long-term trends over the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP), India

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 116, Issue , 2012, Pages 82-92

  Lal, D M ^a,b   Ghude, Sachin D ^a   Patil, S D ^a   Kulkarni, Santosh H ^a   Jena, Chinmay ^a   Tiwari, S ^a   Srivastava, Manoj K ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol index; Satellite data; Trend; Tropospheric ozone residual

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL INDEX; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; CO EMISSIONS; INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS; INDUSTRIAL GROWTH; LARGE PARTS; LONG-TERM TREND; MONSOON SEASON; REGRESSION MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; TREND; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MONSOON; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OZONE; SATELLITE DATA; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

GANGETIC PLAIN;

EID: 84865146715     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.02.014     Document Type: Article

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