Contrasting aerosol characteristics and radiative forcing over Hyderabad, India due to seasonal mesoscale and synoptic-scale processes

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 671, 2013, Pages 434-450

  Sinha, P R ^a   Dumka, U C ^a   Manchanda, R K ^a   Kaskaoutis, D G ^b   Sreenivasan, S ^a   Krishna Moorthy, K ^c   Suresh Babu, S ^c  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b SHARDA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol size distribution; Back trajectories; Hyderabad; MWR; Radiative forcing; Spectral AOD

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; BACK TRAJECTORIES; HYDERABAD; MWR; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SPECTRAL AOD;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE FORCING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TRAJECTORY;

ANDHRA PRADESH; HYDERABAD [ANDHRA PRADESH]; INDIA; WEST ASIA;

EID: 84875378246     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1963     Document Type: Article

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