Monitoring particulate matter in India: recent trends and future outlook

P Pant, RM Lal, SK Guttikunda, AG Russell… - Air Quality, Atmosphere …, 2019 - Springer
Air quality remains a significant environmental health challenge in India, and large sections
of the population live in areas with poor ambient air quality. This article presents a summary …

Crop residue management in rice–wheat cropping system for resource conservation and environmental protection in north-western India

R Singh, DB Yadav, N Ravisankar, A Yadav… - Environment …, 2020 - Springer
Residue management is the emerging challenge for sustainable growth of Indian agriculture
and environmental protection mainly in Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP). Out of 620 MT crop …

Air quality in megacity Delhi affected by countryside biomass burning

S Bikkina, A Andersson, EN Kirillova… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
South Asian megacities are strong sources of regional air pollution. Delhi is a key hotspot of
health-and climate-impacting black carbon (BC) emissions, affecting environmental …

Premonsoon aerosol characterization and radiative effects over the Indo‐Gangetic Plains: Implications for regional climate warming

R Gautam, NC Hsu, KM Lau - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The Himalayas have a profound effect on the South Asian climate and the regional
hydrological cycle, as it forms a barrier for the strong monsoon winds and serves as an …

Variability in atmospheric particulates and meteorological effects on their mass concentrations over Delhi, India

S Tiwari, DS Bisht, AK Srivastava, AS Pipal… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - Elsevier
Simultaneous and continuous measurements of PM 2.5 and PM 10 along with other co-
existent pollutants viz., black carbon (BC), CO, NO and NOx were carried out over Delhi with …

Aerosol radiative forcing during dust events over New Delhi, India

G Pandithurai, S Dipu, KK Dani, S Tiwari… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We present results from sun/sky radiometer measurements of aerosol optical characteristics
carried out in New Delhi during March–June, 2006, as part of the Indian Space Research …

Crop residue burning: a threat to South Asian air quality

RP Singh, DG Kaskaoutis - Eos, Transactions American …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Crop Residue Burning: A Threat to South Asian Air Quality Page 1 © 2014. American
Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Eos, Vol. 95, No. 37, 16 September 2014 EOS …

Aerosol and rainfall variability over the Indian monsoon region: distributions, trends and coupling

R Gautam, NC Hsu, KM Lau… - Annales Geophysicae, 2009 - angeo.copernicus.org
Aerosol solar absorption over the Indian monsoon region has a potential role of modulating
the monsoon circulation and rainfall distribution as suggested by recent studies based on …

Classification of aerosols over Saudi Arabia from 2004–2016

MA Ali, JE Nichol, M Bilal, Z Qiu, U Mazhar… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of aerosol size and composition is very important for investigating the
radiative forcing impacts of aerosols, distinguishing aerosol sources, and identifying harmful …

Development of a daytime cloud and haze detection algorithm for Himawari‐8 satellite measurements over central and eastern China

H Shang, L Chen, H Letu, M Zhao… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cloud detection by passive satellite sensors is very challenging in hazy weather over China
because the reflective characteristics of haze and clouds are very similar. Consequently …