Aerosol black carbon characteristics over Central India: Temporal variation and its dependence on mixed layer height

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 147-148, Issue , 2014, Pages 27-37

  Kompalli, Sobhan Kumar ^a   Babu, S Suresh ^a   Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Manoj, M R ^a   Kumar, N V P Kiran ^a   Shaeb, K Hareef Baba ^b   Joshi, Ashok Kumar ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b Regional Remote Sensing Centre (Central)   (India)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Mixed layer height; Ventilation coefficient

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; RAIN; VENTILATION;

AEROSOL BLACK CARBON; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER PARAMETERS; BLACK CARBON; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; MASS CONCENTRATION; MIXED LAYER; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84901441647     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.04.015     Document Type: Article

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