Long-term (2003-2013) climatological trends and variations in aerosol optical parameters retrieved from MODIS over three stations in South Africa

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 95, Issue , 2014, Pages 400-408

  Kumar, K Raghavendra ^a   Sivakumar, V ^b   Yin, Yan ^a   Reddy, R R ^c   Kang, Na ^a   Diao, Yiwei ^a   Adesina, A Joseph ^b   Yu, Xingna ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical depth; ngstr m exponent; Fine mode fraction; HYSPLIT; MODIS

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL OPTICAL PARAMETERS; AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; FINE MODE FRACTION; HYSPLIT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

RADIOMETERS;

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DECADAL VARIATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MODIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LAW; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPRING; SUMMER; WINTER;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84903773715     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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