Instrument for forcing air into the lungsFrederic P. Wilcox
The months of November through May constitute the dry season in South Asia, when low-level flow brings a polluted air mass from Asia to the Indian Ocean25. Ensemble back-trajectory analyses (Fig. 1a; Fig. S1 in supple- mentary information) coupled with satellite imagery and the Cloud ...
The aerosol parameter most commonly derived from spacecraft remote-sensing data, and used in global energy budget calculations, is total-column, mid-visible, aerosol extinction optical depth. It is a measure of aerosol amount based on the fraction of incident light that is either scattered or abs...