Influence of meteorology and interrelationship with greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) at a suburban site of India

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 3953-3967

  Sreenivas, Gaddamidi ^a   Mahesh, Pathakoti ^a   Subin, Jose ^a   Lakshmi Kanchana, Asuri ^a   Venkata Narasimha Rao, Pamaraju ^a   Kumar Dadhwal, Vinay ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FORCING; GREENHOUSE GAS; METEOROLOGY; METHANE; MONSOON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBURBAN AREA;

INDIA;

EID: 84962467995     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-3953-2016     Document Type: Article

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