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The present study has been focused to the identify the role of meteorological processes on changing the monthly variation of AOD at 550mn, Angstrom Exponent Coefficient (AEC, 440/670nm) and Cloud Effective Radius (CER, mu m) measured during January, 2005 to December 2013 over Western Indian location i.e., Udaipur (24.6 degrees N. 73.7 degrees E, 560 m amsl). The monthly variation of AOD 550mn, AEC and during entire study period have shown the strong combined influence of different local surface meteorological parameters in varying amplitude with different nature. The higher values of wind speed, ambient surface temperature, planetary boundary layer, and favorable wind direction coming from desert and oceanic region (W and SW) may be recognize as some of possible factor to exhibit the higher aerosols loading of bigger aerosol size particles in pre -monsoon. These meteorological factors seem also to be plausible responsible factors for drastically reducing the cloud effective radius in pre-monsoon season. In contrary to this, in winter, lower atmospheric aerosols burden and more abundance of fine size particles along with increasing the CER sizes also seem to be influenced and governed by the adverse nature of meteorological conditions such lowering the PBL, T, WS as well as with air pollutants transportation by wind from the N and NE region, of high aerosols loading of fine size particles as anthropogenic aerosols located far away to the observing site.