Southern Asia, extending from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Indonesia and Papua New
Guinea, is one of the most heavily populated regions of the world. Biofuel and biomass …

Air pollution is growing fastest in monsoon-affected South Asia. During the dry winter
monsoon, the fumes disperse toward the Indian Ocean, creating a vast pollution haze, but …

Atmospheric aerosols over south Asia constitute a major environmental and climate issue.
Thus, extensive land and cruise campaigns have been conducted over the area focusing on …

Climate change has great significance in Asia in general, and India in particular; and
atmospheric aerosols have a decisive role in this. The climate forcing potential of aerosols is …

Aerosol-bound water, a ubiquitous and abundant component of atmospheric aerosols, has
an impact on regional climate, visibility, human health, the hydrological cycle, and …

Ship-borne observations of spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD) have been carried out over
the entire Bay of Bengal (BoB) as part of the W-ICARB cruise campaign during the period 27 …

In this paper, for the first time, an effort has been made to seasonally characterize the
absorbing aerosols into different types using ground and satellite based observations. For …

Perennial increase in atmospheric pollution over the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and South China
Sea is reported due to increase in human population and industrial activity in South and …

Quantitative assessment of the seasonal variations in the direct radiative effect (DRE) of
composite aerosols as well as the constituent species over the Indian sub continent has …

ABSTRACTAtmospheric aerosols over the oceanic region are very important air pollutant
and play a vital role in Earth's radiation budget and climate change. This study presents the …