Dust events and their influence on aerosol optical properties over Jaipur in Northwestern India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 7327-7342

  Verma, Sunita ^a   Payra, Swagata ^a   Gautam, Ritesh ^b   Prakash, Divya ^a   Soni, Manish ^a   Holben, Brent ^b   Bell, Shaun ^b,c  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Climate; Dust; Optical properties; Transport

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; CLIMATE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; TRANSPORT; VOLUME CONCENTRATION;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; DUST; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCATTERING; STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; AIR MASS; ALBEDO; ASYMMETRY; DUST; DUST STORM; LIGHT SCATTERING; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; SEASONAL VARIATION; WAVELENGTH;

AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AIR AND AIR RELATED PHENOMENA; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMIDITY; INDIA; PARTICLE SIZE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; WEATHER; WIND; WINTER;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; WEATHER;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; INDIA; JAIPUR; MIDDLE EAST; RAJASTHAN; THAR DESERT;

EID: 84881139056     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3103-9     Document Type: Article

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