Anthropogenic land use and land cover changes—A review on its environmental consequences and climate change

PS Roy, RM Ramachandran, O Paul, PK Thakur… - Journal of the Indian …, 2022‏ - Springer
The global demand for food and bioenergy changes associated with land use and land
cover change (LULCC) has raised concerns about the environment, global warming, and …

Dust dominates high-altitude snow darkening and melt over high-mountain Asia

C Sarangi, Y Qian, K Rittger, L Ruby Leung… - Nature Climate …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Westerly driven, long-range transportation of dust particles in elevated aerosol layers (EALs)
is a persistent phenomenon during spring and summer over the Indian subcontinent. During …

Aerosol characteristics from earth observation systems: A comprehensive investigation over South Asia (2000–2019)

A Mhawish, M Sorek-Hamer, R Chatfield… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The present study summarizes two decades (2000–2019) of climatology and trends in
aerosol loading and optical properties using a high spatial resolution data obtained from …

CALIPSO lidar level 3 aerosol profile product: Version 3 algorithm design

JL Tackett, DM Winker, BJ Getzewich… - Atmospheric …, 2018‏ - amt.copernicus.org
The CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) level 3
aerosol profile product reports globally gridded, quality-screened, monthly mean aerosol …

Reduction in human activity can enhance the urban heat island: Insights from the COVID-19 lockdown

TC Chakraborty, C Sarangi, X Lee - Environmental Research …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The COVID-19 lockdowns drastically reduced human activity, emulating a controlled
experiment on human–land–atmosphere coupling. Here, using a fusion of satellite and …

Self-Catalytic Reaction of SO3 and NH3 To Produce Sulfamic Acid and Its Implication to Atmospheric Particle Formation

H Li, J Zhong, H Vehkamaki, T Kurtén… - Journal of the …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Sulfur trioxide (SO3) is one of the most active chemical species in the atmosphere, and its
atmospheric fate has profound implications to air quality and human health. The dominant …

Recent increase in winter hazy days over Central India and the Arabian Sea

A Thomas, C Sarangi, VP Kanawade - Scientific Reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Indian subcontinent is greatly vulnerable to air pollution, especially during the winter
season. Here, we use 15 years (2003–2017) of satellite and model reanalysis datasets over …

Global trends of columnar and vertically distributed properties of aerosols with emphasis on dust, polluted dust and smoke-inferences from 10-year long CALIOP …

M Mehta, N Singh - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, the decadal datasets available from the space-borne lidar, Cloud Aerosol Lidar
with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) onboard Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder …

Vertical and horizontal distribution of submicron aerosol chemical composition and physical characteristics across northern India during pre-monsoon and monsoon …

J Brooks, JD Allan, PI Williams, D Liu… - Atmospheric …, 2019‏ - acp.copernicus.org
The vertical distribution in the physical and chemical properties of submicron aerosol has
been characterised across northern India for the first time using airborne in situ …

Long-range transport of mineral dust to the northeast Indian Ocean: Regional versus remote sources and the implications

P Banerjee, SK Satheesh, KK Moorthy… - Journal of …, 2019‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Synergizing satellite remote sensing data with vertical profiles of atmospheric
thermodynamics and regional climate model simulations, we investigate the relative …