Identification and classification of different aerosol types over a subtropical rural site in mpumalanga, South Africa: Seasonal variations as retrieved from the AERONET sunphotometer

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 108-123

  Kumar, Kanike Raghavendra ^a,b   Sivakumar, Venkataraman ^a   Reddy, Rajuru Ramakrishna ^c   Gopal, Kotalo Rama ^c   Adesina, Ayodele Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

AERONET; Aerosol types; Curvature; Optical properties; Skukuza

Indexed keywords

AERONET; AEROSOL OPTICAL CHARACTERISTIC; AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; AEROSOL TYPES; ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; CURVATURE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF AEROSOLS; SKUKUZA;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DEFORESTATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

AIR POLLUTION;

AERONET; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CURVATURE; DUST; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETER; RURAL ATMOSPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; DEFORESTATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

MPUMALANGA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84893113250     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2013.03.0079     Document Type: Article

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