Articles | Volume 14, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-6813-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-6813-2014
Research article
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04 Jul 2014
Research article |  | 04 Jul 2014

Effects of dust aerosols on tropospheric chemistry during a typical pre-monsoon season dust storm in northern India

R. Kumar, M. C. Barth, S. Madronich, M. Naja, G. R. Carmichael, G. G. Pfister, C. Knote, G. P. Brasseur, N. Ojha, and T. Sarangi

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