Black carbon aerosols over the Himalayas: Direct and surface albedo forcing

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nair, Vijayakumar S ^a   Babu, S Suresh ^a   Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Sharma, Arun Kumar ^b   Marinoni, Angela ^c,d   Ajai, ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b Indian Space Research Organization Space Application Centre   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Himalayan aerosols; Radiative forcing; Snow albedo

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL FORMATION; ALBEDO; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MONSOON; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE FORCING;

HIMALAYAS; NEPAL;

EID: 84899491665     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.19738     Document Type: Article

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