Our Latest Paper in JASTP
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics Volume 74 , January 2012, Pages 232–237 Impact of a noon-time annular solar eclipse on the mixing layer height and vertical distribution of aerosols in the atmospheric boundary layer Manoj Kumar Mishra, K. Rajeev , , Anish Kumar M. Nair, K. Krishna Moorthy, K. Parameswaran For full paper, click this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2011.10.012 , Abstract Impact of the long duration noontime annular solar eclipse on 15 January 2010 on the vertical distribution of aerosols and mixing layer height ( H M ) in a well-developed convective atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) has been investigated using continuous Lidar observations over a tropical coastal station, Thumba (8.5°N, 76.9°E). This study shows that H M has decreased from its peak value of ∼1800 m at 12:00 h to ∼1000 m following the annular phase of the ecl...
