What is polluting Delhi's air? A review from 1990 to 2022

SK Guttikunda, SK Dammalapati, G Pradhan, B Krishna… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Delhi's annual average PM2. 5 concentration in 2021–22 was 100 μg/m3—20 times more
than the WHO guideline of 5 μg/m3. This is an improvement compared to the limited …

Current status of source apportionment of ambient aerosols in India

S Yadav, SN Tripathi, M Rupakheti - Atmospheric Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Particulate matter (PM) pollution is a major challenge in India. The Ministry of Environment,
Forest and Climate Change, Government of India has launched the National Clean Air …

Effect of biomass burning, diwali fireworks, and polluted fog events on the oxidative potential of fine ambient particulate matter in Delhi, India

JV Puthussery, J Dave, A Shukla… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We investigated the influence of biomass burning (BURN), Diwali fireworks, and fog events
on the ambient fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) oxidative potential (OP) during the …

Evolution of India's PM 2.5 pollution between 1998 and 2020 using global reanalysis fields coupled with satellite observations and fuel consumption patterns

S Guttikunda, KA Nishadh - Environmental Science: Atmospheres, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
General practice is to rely on ambient monitoring data for reporting and regulatory
applications in air quality management. Based on data collated for 2021, Delhi ranked the …

Air quality and health co-benefits of vehicle electrification and emission controls in the most populated United States urban hubs: Insights from New York, Los Angeles …

S Mousavinezhad, Y Choi, N Khorshidian… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs) is a prominent strategy for reducing greenhouse gas
emissions. However, given the complexity of atmospheric chemistry, the nuanced …

Air pollution from biomass burning in India

SN Tripathi, S Yadav, K Sharma - Environmental Research …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Air pollution is the most difficult challenge India is facing today, and anthropogenic biomass
burning (ABB) is one of the major and least understood sources, leading to serious health …

Seasonal variability and source apportionment of non-methane VOCs using PTR-TOF-MS measurements in Delhi, India

V Jain, SN Tripathi, N Tripathi, LK Sahu… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are ubiquitous atmospheric constituents and play
important roles in tropospheric photochemistry. The real-time chemical characterization of …

Aging of biomass burning emissions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain outflow: Implications for black carbon light-absorption enhancement

SK Kompalli, SS Babu, TC Ajith, KK Moorthy… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent studies worldwide have demonstrated that coating on atmospheric black carbon
(BC) aerosol enhances its absorption potential. However, studies quantifying the light …

Seasonal variation of biochemical parameters and air pollution tolerance index (APTI) of selected plant species in Delhi city, and detailed meta-analysis from Indian …

DP Tripathi, AK Nema - Atmospheric Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Plants act as the primary barrier to atmospheric pollution. Thus, while considering the role of
plants in restricting air pollutants, one of the environmental tools used to assess tolerant …

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 …