Transport of aerosols into the UTLS and their impact on the asian monsoon region as seen in a global model simulation

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 8771-8786

  Fadnavis, S ^a   Semeniuk, K ^b   Pozzoli, L ^c   Schultz, M G ^d   Ghude, S D ^a   Das, S ^a   Kakatkar, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BLACK CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HADLEY CELL; MONSOON; ORGANIC CARBON; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; SULFATE; SUMMER; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

EID: 84883821889     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-8771-2013     Document Type: Article

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