Air pollution over the ganges basin and northwest bay of bengal in the early postmonsoon season based on NASA MERRAero data

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1555-1570

  Kishcha, Pavel ^a   da Silva, Arlindo M ^b   Starobinets, Boris ^a   Alpert, Pinhas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; NASA; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AEROSOL EMISSIONS; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; BAY OF BENGAL; INDUSTRIAL OUTPUTS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SENSORS; POPULATION DENSITIES;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; AQUA (SATELLITE); ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA SET; EMISSION INVENTORY; EOS; MODIS; MONSOON; OPTICAL DEPTH; SEASONALITY; TERRA (SATELLITE);

BAY OF BENGAL; GANGES BASIN; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84899000477     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020328     Document Type: Article

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