What is polluting Delhi's Air? A review from 1990 to 2022

SK Guttikunda, SK Dammalapati, G Pradhan, B Krishna… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Delhi's annual average PM2. 5 concentration in 2021–22 was 100 μg/m3—20 times more
than the WHO guideline of 5 μg/m3. This is an improvement compared to the limited …

Local incomplete combustion emissions define the PM2.5 oxidative potential in Northern India

D Bhattu, SN Tripathi, HS Bhowmik, V Moschos… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The oxidative potential (OP) of particulate matter (PM) is a major driver of PM-associated
health effects. In India, the emission sources defining PM-OP, and their local/regional nature …

[HTML][HTML] Plugging the ambient air monitoring gaps in India's national clean air programme (NCAP) airsheds

S Guttikunda, N Ka, T Ganguly, P Jawahar - Atmospheric Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Building an effective clean air action plan for a city's air pollution problem requires an
extensive network of monitoring stations to represent spatial and temporal patterns and an …

Source apportionment and potential source regions of size-resolved particulate matter at a heavily polluted industrial city in the Indo-Gangetic Plain

L Gupta, M Bansal, P Nandi, G Habib… - Atmospheric Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
This study presents results from size-resolved particulate matter (PM) source apportionment
in Ghaziabad, an industrial city adjoining New Delhi in the Indo Gangetic Plain (IGP). A full …

Chemical Characterization and Source Apportionment of PM10 Using Receptor Models over the Himalayan Region of India

N Choudhary, A Rai, JC Kuniyal, P Srivastava, R Lata… - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study presents the source apportionment of coarse-mode particulate matter (PM10)
extracted by 3 receptor models (PCA/APCS, UNMIX, and PMF) at semi-urban sites of the …

Source apportionment and health impact assessment of atmospheric particulate matter in the city of São Carlos, Brazil

JS Carvalho, RKS do Nascimento… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, positive matrix factorization method was used for source apportionment of PM
10 in the city of São Carlos from 2015 to 2018. The annual mean concentrations of PM 10 …

Characterisation, Sources and Health Risk of Heavy Metals in PM2.5 in Agra, India

D Sah, PK Verma, KM Kumari, A Lakhani - Exposure and Health, 2023 - Springer
The present study evaluated the seasonal variations, sources and health risks of heavy
metals in fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) collected at an urban site in Agra, India during …

[HTML][HTML] Decision Support System version 1.0 (DSS v1. 0) for air quality management in Delhi, India

G Govardhan, SD Ghude, R Kumar… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper discusses the newly developed Decision Support System version 1.0 (DSS v1. 0)
for air quality management activities in Delhi, India. In addition to standard air quality …

How dominant the load of bioaerosols in PM2.5 and PM10: a comprehensive study in the IGP during winter

YK Vishwakarma, MM Gogoi, SNS Babu… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
The winter period is most ideal for studying near-surface aerosols in the Indo-Gangetic
plains (IGP) of India, since this period is inundated with significantly higher concentrations of …

Vehicle Stock Numbers and Survival Functions for On-road Exhaust Emissions Analysis in India: 1993-2018

SK Guttikunda - 2024 - preprints.org
In air quality management, at urban and regional levels, road transport remains the
cornerstone of residential, commercial, and industrial activities, and the vehicle exhaust …