Real-time monitoring of air pollutants in seven cities of North India during crop residue burning and their relationship with meteorology and transboundary movement …

K Ravindra, T Singh, S Mor, V Singh, TK Mandal… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Air pollutants emissions due to the burning of crop residues could adversely affect human
health, environment, and climate. Hence, a multicity campaign was conducted during crop …

Organic molecular tracers in the atmospheric aerosols from Lumbini, Nepal, in the northern Indo-Gangetic Plain: influence of biomass burning

X Wan, S Kang, Q Li, D Rupakheti… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
To better understand the characteristics of biomass burning in the northern Indo-Gangetic
Plain (IGP), total suspended particles were collected in a rural site, Lumbini, Nepal, during …

Season-wise analyses of VOCs, hydroxyl radicals and ozone formation chemistry over north-west India reveal isoprene and acetaldehyde as the most potent ozone …

V Kumar, V Sinha - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The north-west Indo-Gangetic Plain is the agricultural cereal-basket of India owing
to its prolific wheat and rice production. Surface ozone pollution is of growing concern over …

Gridded 1 km× 1 km emission inventory for paddy stubble burning emissions over north-west India constrained by measured emission factors of 77 VOCs and district …

A Kumar, H Hakkim, B Sinha, V Sinha - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Every year in the post-monsoon season,~ 1.7 billion tons of paddy stubble is burnt openly in
the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) producing persistent smog and air quality deterioration that …

Appraisal of regional haze event and its relationship with PM2. 5 concentration, crop residue burning and meteorology in Chandigarh, India

K Ravindra, T Singh, V Sinha, B Sinha, S Paul, SD Attri… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Air pollution affects not only the air quality in megacities but also in medium and small-sized
cities due to rapid urbanization, industrialization, and other anthropogenic activities. From …

Non-methane hydrocarbon (NMHC) fingerprints of major urban and agricultural emission sources for use in source apportionment studies

A Kumar, V Sinha, M Shabin, H Hakkim… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
In complex atmospheric emission environments such as urban agglomerates, multiple
sources control the ambient chemical composition driving air quality and regional climate. In …

Large unexplained suite of chemically reactive compounds present in ambient air due to biomass fires

V Kumar, BP Chandra, V Sinha - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Biomass fires impact global atmospheric chemistry. The reactive compounds emitted and
formed due to biomass fires drive ozone and organic aerosol formation, affecting both air …

Pre-monsoon air quality over Lumbini, a world heritage site along the Himalayan foothills

D Rupakheti, B Adhikary, PS Praveen… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Lumbini, in southern Nepal, is a UNESCO world heritage site of universal value as the
birthplace of Buddha. Poor air quality in Lumbini and surrounding regions is a great concern …

Long-term MAX-DOAS measurements of NO2, HCHO, and aerosols and evaluation of corresponding satellite data products over Mohali in the Indo-Gangetic Plain

V Kumar, S Beirle, S Dörner, AK Mishra… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
We present comprehensive long-term ground-based multi-axis differential optical absorption
spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) measurements of aerosols, nitrogen dioxide (NO 2), and …

[HTML][HTML] RTEII: A new high-resolution (0.1°× 0.1°) road transport emission inventory for India of 74 speciated NMVOCs, CO, NOx, NH3, CH4, CO2, PM2. 5 reveals …

H Hakkim, A Kumar, S Annadate, B Sinha… - Atmospheric Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract 21 of 30 most polluted cities for particulate matter (PM 2.5) are in India, yet the
distribution, identity and emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from traffic, which …