Variation in black carbon mass concentration over an urban site in the eastern coastal plains of the Indian sub-continent

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 133-147

  Mahapatra, Parth S ^a   Panda, Sipra ^a   Das, Namrata ^a   Rath, Satyajit ^a   Das, Trupti ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF MINERALS AND MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BLACK CARBON; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HUMAN ACTIVITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

BHUBANESWAR; GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA; ODISHA;

EID: 85027928801     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0984-z     Document Type: Article

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