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Altitude profiles of cloud condensation nuclei characteristics across the Indo-Gangetic Plain prior to the onset of the Indian summer monsoon
Venugopalan Nair Jayachandran
Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO PO),
Thiruvananthapuram, India
Surendran Nair Suresh Babu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO PO),
Thiruvananthapuram, India
Aditya Vaishya
School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India
Mukunda M. Gogoi
Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO PO),
Thiruvananthapuram, India
Vijayakumar S. Nair
Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO PO),
Thiruvananthapuram, India
Sreedharan Krishnakumari Satheesh
Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of
Science, Bengaluru, India
Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science,
Bengaluru, India
Krishnaswamy Krishna Moorthy
Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science,
Bengaluru, India
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Concurrent measurements of the altitude profiles of the concentration of cloud condensation nuclei (CCNs), as a function of supersaturation (ranging from 0.2 % to 1.0 %), and aerosol optical properties were carried out aboard an instrumented aircraft across the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) just prior to the onset of the 2016 Indian summer monsoon (ISM). A high CCN concentration is observed up to 2.5 km across the IGP, indicating the significant possibility of aerosol indirect effects.
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