Buildup of aerosols over the Indian Region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1011-1014

  Krishna Moorthy, K ^a   Suresh Babu, S ^a   Manoj, M R ^a   Satheesh, S K ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosols

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; ATMOSPHERIC WARMING; GLOBAL CLIMATES; PRIMARY DATA; SOUTH ASIA;

AEROSOLS; CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; DATA ACQUISITION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; OBSERVATORY; OPTICAL DEPTH; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WARMING;

INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84876795911     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50165     Document Type: Article

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