Post-monsoon air quality degradation across Northern India: assessing the impact of policy-related shifts in timing and amount of crop residue burnt

H Sembhi, M Wooster, T Zhang… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The past decade has seen episodes of increasingly severe air pollution across much of the
highly populated Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP), particularly during the post-monsoon season …

Evaluation of WRF-Chem-simulated meteorology and aerosols over northern India during the severe pollution episode of 2016

P Agarwal, DS Stevenson… - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
We use a state-of-the-art regional chemistry transport model (WRF-Chem v4. 2.1) to simulate
particulate air pollution over northern India during September–November 2016. This period …

Synergistic observation of FY-4A&4B to estimate CO concentration in China: combining interpretable machine learning to reveal the influencing mechanisms of CO …

B Chen, J Hu, Y Wang - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2024 - nature.com
Accurately estimating the concentration of carbon monoxide (CO) with high spatiotemporal
resolution is crucial for assessing its meteorological-environmental-health impacts. Although …

A real-time assessment of hazardous atmospheric pollutants across cities in China and India

S Rahaman, X Tu, K Ahmad, A Qadeer - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
China and India are two of the fastest-growing develo** economies covering about 35%
of the world's population. Due to the extensive prevalence of air pollution across cities in …

Biomass-burning sources control ambient particulate matter, but traffic and industrial sources control volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions and secondary …

A Awasthi, B Sinha, H Hakkim, S Mishra… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and particulate matter (PM) are major constituents of
smog. Delhi experiences severe smog during the post-monsoon season, but a quantitative …

Source apportionment of volatile organic compounds during paddy-residue burning season in north-west India reveals large pool of photochemically formed air toxics

R Singh, B Sinha, H Hakkim, V Sinha - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
Paddy-residue burning is associated with poor air quality in north-west India during October–
November every year. However, till date a quantitative study of its contribution to ambient …

Crop residue burning practices across north India inferred from household survey data: Bridging gaps in satellite observations

T Liu, LJ Mickley, S Singh, M Jain, RS DeFries… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
In north India, agricultural burning adversely affects local and regional air quality during the
post-monsoon season (October to November), when the prevailing meteorology is favorable …

Impacts of COVID-19 on air quality in India

RL Verma, JS Kamyotra - Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic spread all over the world in early 2020. India imposed a
nationwide lockdown on March 25, 2020, for more than a month to contain the COVID-19 …

TROPOMI unravels transboundary transport pathways of atmospheric carbon monoxide in Tibetan Plateau

P Lin, Y Tian, T Borsdorff, Z Li, J Landgraf, H Wu… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Numerous studies have reported in situ monitoring and source analysis in the Tibetan
Plateau (TP), a region crucial for climate systems. However, a gap remains in understanding …

Monitoring CO emissions of the metropolis Mexico City using TROPOMI CO observations

T Borsdorff, A García Reynoso… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
The Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on ESA Copernicus Sentinel-5 satellite
(S5-P) measures the carbon monoxide (CO) total column concentration as one of its primary …