Aerosol particle behavior during Dust Storm and Diwali over an urban location in north western India

Natural Hazards

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1767-1779

  Prakash, Divya ^a   Payra, Swagata ^a   Verma, Sunita ^a   Soni, Manish ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol number concentration; Diwali; Dust storm; Emissions, percentage change

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CULTURAL TRADITION; DUST STORM; EMISSION INVENTORY; PARTICLE MOTION; URBAN AREA; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

INDIA; JAIPUR; RAJASTHAN;

EID: 84888639813     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0780-1     Document Type: Article

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