Tropospheric anthropogenic aerosols contribute the second-largest forcing to climate
change, but with high uncertainty owing to their spatio-temporal variability and complicated …

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 …

Black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in Earth's climate system. Black
carbon is a type of carbonaceous material with a unique combination of physical properties …

Observations show that South Asia underwent a widespread summertime drying during the
second half of the 20th century, but it is unclear whether this trend was due to natural …

The West African Sahel is well known for the severe droughts that ravaged the region in the
1970s and 1980s. Meteorological research on the region has flourished during the last …

Black carbon in soot is the dominant absorber of visible solar radiation in the atmosphere.
Anthropogenic sources of black carbon, although distributed globally, are most concentrated …

Greenhouse gases (GHGs) warm the surface and the atmosphere with significant
implications for rainfall, retreat of glaciers and sea ice, sea level, among other factors. About …

Drought characteristics for the Indian monsoon region are analyzed using two different
datasets and standard precipitation index (SPI), standardized precipitation …

Weakening of Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) is traditionally linked with large-scale
perturbations and circulations. However, the impacts of local changes in land use and land …

Absorbing aerosols (AAs) such as black carbon (BC) or dust absorb incoming solar
radiation, perturb the temperature structure of the atmosphere, and influence cloud cover …