Air pollution trends over Indian megacities and their local-to-global implications

BR Gurjar, K Ravindra, AS Nagpure - Atmospheric Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
More than half of the world's population lives in urban areas. It is estimated that by 2030
there will be 41 megacities and most of them will be located in developing countries. The …

Impacts of climate and synoptic fluctuations on dust storm activity over the Middle East

S Namdari, N Karimi, A Sorooshian… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
Dust events in the Middle East are becoming more frequent and intense in recent years with
impacts on air quality, climate, and public health. In this study, the relationship between dust …

Source apportionment of PM2. 5 nitrate and sulfate in China using a source-oriented chemical transport model

H Zhang, J Li, Q Ying, JZ Yu, D Wu, Y Cheng… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - Elsevier
Nitrate and sulfate account for a significant fraction of PM2. 5 mass and are generally
secondary in nature. Contributions to these two inorganic aerosol components from major …

The retrieval of aerosol optical properties based on a random forest machine learning approach: Exploration of geostationary satellite images

F Bao, K Huang, S Wu - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Aerosol optical properties are among the most fundamental parameters in atmospheric
environmental studies. Satellite aerosols retrievals that are based on deep learning or …

Overview of atmospheric aerosol studies in Malaysia: Known and unknown

KD Kanniah, DG Kaskaoutis, H San Lim, MT Latif… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - Elsevier
Atmospheric aerosols particularly those originated from anthropogenic sources can affect
human health, air quality and the regional climate system of Southeast Asia (SEA) …

Spatial and seasonal variability of PM2.5 acidity at two Chinese megacities: insights into the formation of secondary inorganic aerosols

K He, Q Zhao, Y Ma, F Duan, F Yang… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
Aerosol acidity is one of the most important parameters influencing atmospheric chemistry
and physics. Based on continuous field observations from January 2005 to May 2006 and …

Understanding of regional air pollution over China using CMAQ, part I performance evaluation and seasonal variation

XH Liu, Y Zhang, SH Cheng, J Xing, Q Zhang… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - Elsevier
The US EPA Models-3 Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system with the
process analysis tool is applied to China to study the seasonal variations and formation …

The impact of the direct effect of aerosols on meteorology and air quality using aerosol optical depth assimilation during the KORUS‐AQ campaign

J Jung, AH Souri, DC Wong, S Lee… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
To quantify the impact of the direct aerosol effect accurately, this study incorporated the
Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) aerosol optical depth (AOD) into a coupled …

Impacts of aerosols on summertime tropospheric photolysis frequencies and photochemistry over Central Eastern China

J Li, Z Wang, X Wang, K Yamaji, M Takigawa… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - Elsevier
Aerosols in the troposphere influence photolysis frequencies and hence the concentrations
of chemical species. We used a three-dimensional regional chemical transport model …

Water bodies changes in Tigris and Euphrates basin has impacted dust storms phenomena

AD Boloorani, R Papi, M Soleimani, L Karami, F Amiri… - Aeolian Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Tigris and Euphrates basin (TEB) has long been one of the active dust sources
in the Middle East. In the last four decades, inefficient water resources management has …