Variability of optical properties for atmospheric aerosol in Kuching city using AERONET Sunphotometer

2012 IEEE Conference on Open Systems, ICOS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Asmat, Arnis ^a   Jalal, Khairunnisa Abd ^a   Ahmad, Noordin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b National Space Agency   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING AEROSOL; AERONET; AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; AEROSOL PROPERTIES; ANGSTROM EXPONENT; BIOMASS-BURNING; CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; COARSE MODE; IMAGINARY PARTS; INVERSION ALGORITHM; KUCHING CITY; MEAN VALUES; MINIMUM VALUE; RADIATIVE BALANCE; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; REAL PART; SARAWAK; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; SUN PHOTOMETERS; URBAN POLLUTIONS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 84874238119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICOS.2012.6417628     Document Type: Conference Paper

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