Multiscale periodicities in aerosol optical depth over India

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ramachandran, S ^a,e   Ghosh, Sayantan ^b,c   Verma, Amit ^d   Panigrahi, P K ^c  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

^d J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; MODULATION; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AEROSOL CHARACTERISTICS; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM; LONG-TERM CORRELATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; QUASI-TRIENNIAL OSCILLATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CYCLICITY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PERIODICITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TERRA (SATELLITE);

INDIA;

EID: 84876173325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014034     Document Type: Article

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