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Influences Of Winter Haze On Fog/Low Cloud Over The Indo-Gangetic Plains, Ritesh Gautam, N. C. Hsu, Menas Kafatos
Influences Of Winter Haze On Fog/Low Cloud Over The Indo-Gangetic Plains, Ritesh Gautam, N. C. Hsu, Menas Kafatos
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The aerosol loading in south Asia has increased considerably because of the growing population, urbanization, and industrialization in recent years. To understand the effects of aerosols on cloud properties in this region, we have analyzed an extensive collection of aerosol and cloud properties, obtained from the Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data, over the Indian subcontinent during winter 2000–2006. During these winter months, the Indo-Gangetic (IG) plains, in the northern part of India, are subjected to dense haze and fog on the basis of MODIS climatology of aerosol optical depth and cloud properties (cloud effective radius, cloud top pressure, and …