Aerosol Characteristics at a high-altitude station Nainital during the ISRO-GBP Land Campaign-II

2006/04/15 by Saha, Auromeet, Pant, P., Dumka, U. C. +3
#Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0604124

Abstract

During the second land campaign (LC-II) organised by ISRO-GBP, extensive ground-based measurements of aerosol characteristics were carried out over Manora Peak (29.4oN; 79.5oE; 1951 metres above mean sea level), Nainital (a high altitude station located in the Shivalik ranges of Central Himalayas) during the dry, winter season (December) of 2004. These measurements included the spectral aerosol optical depths (AOD), columnar water vapour content (W), Total Columnar Ozone (TCO), total number concentration (NT) of near surface aerosols, mass concentration of black carbon (MB), aerosol mass loading (MT), and Global Solar Radiation. Based on these measured parameters, we present the results on the near-surface and columnar properties of atmospheric aerosols at Nainital.

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