A review on ambient and indoor air pollution status in Africa

KE Agbo, C Walgraeve, JI Eze, PE Ugwoke… - Atmospheric Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
In spite of the global outcry for urgent action against air pollution, most African countries lack
functional air quality monitoring stations and data there from; making air quality …

Black carbon aerosol in India: A comprehensive review of current status and future prospects

A Rana, S Jia, S Sarkar - Atmospheric Research, 2019 - Elsevier
India is currently the second-largest emitter of black carbon (BC) in the world, with emissions
projected to rise steadily in the coming decades. In view of the large variations associated …

Carbon nanomaterials derived from black carbon soot: a review of materials and applications

D Saini, Gunture, J Kaushik, R Aggarwal… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein, we provide a possible description for the isolation/fabrication of nanocarbons from
freely available global pollutant waste as black-carbonaceous-soot particulates known as …

Black carbon health impacts in the Indo-Gangetic plain: exposures, risks, and mitigation

S Verma, S Ghosh, O Boucher, R Wang, L Menut - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
A large discrepancy between simulated and observed black carbon (BC) surface
concentrations over the densely populated Indo-Gangetic plain (IGP) has so far limited our …

Aerosol properties over the Indo‐Gangetic Plain: A mesoscale perspective from the TIGERZ experiment

DM Giles, BN Holben, SN Tripathi… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
High aerosol loading over the northern Indian subcontinent can result in poor air quality
leading to human health consequences and climate perturbations. The international 2008 …

Carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere

D Contini, R Vecchi, M Viana - Atmosphere, 2018 - mdpi.com
Scientific understanding of the processes involving carbonaceous aerosols in atmosphere is
extremely important for both the climate and human health. This explains the increasing …

Light absorption properties of elemental carbon (EC) and water-soluble brown carbon (WS–BrC) in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: a 5-year study

P Chen, S Kang, L Tripathee, K Ram, M Rupakheti… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of organic carbon (OC), elemental carbon
(EC), and particularly the light absorption characteristics of EC and water-soluble brown …

A review on black carbon emissions, worldwide and in China

M Ni, J Huang, S Lu, X Li, J Yan, K Cen - Chemosphere, 2014 - Elsevier
Black carbon (BC) produced from open burning (OB) and controlled combustion (CC) is a
range of carbonaceous products of incomplete combustion of biomass and fossil fuel, and is …

Physical and chemical properties of PM1 in Delhi: a comparison between clean and polluted days

A Malik, SG Aggarwal, B Kunwar, DK Deshmukh… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Considering the significance of PM 1 aerosol in assessing health impacts of air pollution, an
extensive analysis of PM 1 samples collected at an urban site in Delhi is presented in this …

Simulation of South Asian aerosols for regional climate studies

VS Nair, F Solmon, F Giorgi, L Mariotti… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Extensive intercomparison of columnar and near‐surface aerosols, simulated over the South
Asian domain using the aerosol module included in the regional climate model (RegCM4) of …