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Black carbon aerosols over the Himalayas: direct and surface albedo forcing Cover

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

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 65 (2013): Issue 1
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|Jan 2013
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.19738 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 19738 - 19738
Submitted on: Sep 19, 2012
Accepted on: Aug 5, 2013
Published on: Jan 1, 2013
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
black carbon,
Himalayan aerosols,
snow albedo,
radiative forcing

© 2013 Vijayakumar S. Nair, S. Suresh Babu, K. Krishna Moorthy, Arun Kumar Sharma, Angela Marinoni, Ajai none, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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