Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia

Z Li, WKM Lau, V Ramanathan, G Wu… - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing severity of droughts/floods and worsening air quality from increasing
aerosols in Asia monsoon regions are the two gravest threats facing over 60% of the world …

A review of air quality modeling studies in India: local and regional scale

R Garaga, SK Sahu, SH Kota - Current Pollution Reports, 2018 - Springer
Developing countries like India require proper control strategies for reducing the enormous
premature mortality associated with air pollution. Air quality models, in addition to helping to …

Trends in aerosol optical depth over Indian region: Potential causes and impact indicators

SS Babu, MR Manoj, KK Moorthy… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The first regional synthesis of long‐term (back to~ 25 years at some stations) primary data
(from direct measurement) on aerosol optical depth from the ARFINET (network of aerosol …

Year-long simulation of gaseous and particulate air pollutants in India

SH Kota, H Guo, L Myllyvirta, J Hu, SK Sahu… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
Severe pollution events occur frequently in India but few studies have investigated the
characteristics, sources, and control strategies for the whole country. A year-long simulation …

Anthropogenic fugitive, combustion and industrial dust is a significant, underrepresented fine particulate matter source in global atmospheric models

S Philip, RV Martin, G Snider, CL Weagle… - Environmental …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Global measurements of the elemental composition of fine particulate matter across several
urban locations by the Surface Particulate Matter Network reveal an enhanced fraction of …

The impact of residential combustion emissions on atmospheric aerosol, human health, and climate

EW Butt, A Rap, A Schmidt, CE Scott… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Combustion of fuels in the residential sector for cooking and heating results in the emission
of aerosol and aerosol precursors impacting air quality, human health, and climate …

Quantifying sources, transport, deposition, and radiative forcing of black carbon over the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau

R Zhang, H Wang, Y Qian, PJ Rasch… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Black carbon (BC) particles over the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau (HTP), both airborne
and those deposited on snow, have been shown to affect snowmelt and glacier retreat …

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 …

A multi-model evaluation of aerosols over South Asia: common problems and possible causes

X Pan, M Chin, R Gautam, H Bian, D Kim… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric pollution over South Asia attracts special attention due to its effects on regional
climate, water cycle and human health. These effects are potentially growing owing to rising …

What controls the seasonal cycle of black carbon aerosols in India?

R Kumar, MC Barth, GG Pfister, VS Nair… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The seasonal variability of black carbon (BC) aerosols in India is studied using high
resolution (10 km) BC simulations conducted using the Weather Research and Forecasting …