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 …

Vertical profiling of black carbon and ozone using a multicopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in urban Shenzhen of South China

C Wu, B Liu, D Wu, H Yang, X Mao, J Tan… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Existing studies on vertical profiling of black carbon (BC) and ozone (O 3) were mainly
conducted in the rural areas, leading to limited knowledge of their vertical distributions in the …

The role of the Intertropical discontinuity region and the heat low in dust emission and transport over the Thar Desert, India: A Premonsoon case study

UC Dumka, DG Kaskaoutis, D Francis… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A severe dust storm occurred over north India during 12–16 June 2018 is analyzed using
satellite observations, reanalysis, ground‐based measurements, and model (Meso‐NH) …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Satellite (GOSAT-2 CAI-2) retrieval and surface (ARFINET) observations of aerosol black carbon over India

MM Gogoi, SS Babu, R Imasu… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Light-absorbing black carbon (BC) aerosols strongly affect Earth's radiation budget and
climate. This paper presents satellite retrieval of BC over India based on observations from …

Spaceborne observations of aerosol vertical distribution over Indian mainland (2009–2018)

M Mehta, R Khushboo, R Raj, N Singh - Atmospheric Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Since the past two decades, high aerosol loading is being observed over the Indian
mainland. It becomes necessary to continuously monitor and understand the distribution of …

Role of sulphate and carbonaceous aerosols on the radiative effects of aerosols over a remote high-altitude site Lachung in the Eastern Himalayas

BS Arun, MM Gogoi, A Borgohain, P Hegde… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
The rapid changes in the pattern of atmospheric warming as well as the degradation of
glaciers in the Himalayas point to the inevitability of accurate source characterization and …

Time-resolved black carbon aerosol vertical distribution measurements using a 356-m meteorological tower in Shenzhen

T Sun, C Wu, D Wu, B Liu, JY Sun, X Mao… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2020 - Springer
Black carbon (BC) is an essential climate forcer in the atmosphere. Large uncertainties
remain in BC's radiative forcing estimation by models, partially due to the limited …

Altitude profiles of cloud condensation nuclei characteristics across the Indo-Gangetic Plain prior to the onset of the Indian summer monsoon

VN Jayachandran, SN Suresh Babu… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Concurrent measurements of the altitude profiles of the concentration of cloud condensation
nuclei (CCN), as a function of supersaturation (ranging from 0.2% to 1.0%), and aerosol …

[HTML][HTML] Airborne in situ measurements of aerosol size distributions and black carbon across the Indo-Gangetic Plain during SWAAMI–RAWEX

MM Gogoi, VN Jayachandran, A Vaishya… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Abstract During the combined South-West Asian Aerosol–Monsoon Interactions and
Regional Aerosol Warming Experiment (SWAAMI–RAWEX), collocated airborne …