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 …

Drivers of climate over the Western Himalayan region of India: A review

L Das, JK Meher - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The Himalayas popularly known as the 'Third Pole'and 'Water tower'of Asia has attracted
global attention under the context of climate change as rainfall in this region has decreased …

Aerosol temporal characteristics and its impact on shortwave radiative forcing at a location in the northeast of India

B Pathak, G Kalita, K Bhuyan… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements of aerosol optical depth (AOD) and mass concentration of composite and
black carbon (BC) aerosols made with collocated instruments over Dibrugarh in Northeast …

First simultaneous measurements of ozone, CO, and NOy at a high‐altitude regional representative site in the central Himalayas

T Sarangi, M Naja, N Ojha, R Kumar… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Simultaneous in situ measurements of ozone, CO, and NOy have been made for the first
time at a high altitude site Nainital (29.37° N, 79.45° E, 1958 m above mean sea level) in the …

High altitude (∼ 4520 m amsl) measurements of black carbon aerosols over western trans‐Himalayas: Seasonal heterogeneity and source apportionment

SS Babu, JP Chaubey… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The first ever, year‐round measurements of aerosol black carbon (BC) over the western part
of trans‐Himalayas are reported from Hanle (∼ 4520 m above mean sea level). The daily …

Aerosol direct radiative effects over Kanpur in the Indo‐Gangetic basin, northern India: Long‐term (2001–2005) observations and implications to regional climate

S Dey, SN Tripathi - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We present 5‐year (2001–2005) monthly mean estimates of direct radiative effects (DRE)
due to aerosols over Kanpur region in the Indo‐Gangetic basin for the first time. Further, the …

Physical and optical properties of aerosols over an urban location in western India: Seasonal variabilities

D Ganguly, A Jayaraman… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We present results on various physical and optical properties of aerosols measured over
Ahmedabad, an urban location in western India, from 2002 to 2005 and discuss their …

Contribution of anthropogenic aerosols in direct radiative forcing and atmospheric heating rate over Delhi in the Indo-Gangetic Basin

AK Srivastava, S Singh, S Tiwari, DS Bisht - Environmental Science and …, 2012 - Springer
Introduction The present work is aimed to understand direct radiation effects due to aerosols
over Delhi in the Indo-Gangetic Basin (IGB) region, using detailed chemical analysis of …

Temporal variability and radiative impact of black carbon aerosol over tropical urban station Hyderabad

UC Dumka, RK Manchanda, PR Sinha… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2013 - Elsevier
Time variability of black carbon (BC) aerosols over different timescales (daily, weekly and
annual) is studied over a tropical urban location Hyderabad in India using seven channel …

Optical and radiative properties of aerosols over Desalpar, a remote site in western India: Source identification, modification processes and aerosol type discrimination

PN Patel, UC Dumka, DG Kaskaoutis, KN Babu… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Aerosol optical properties are analyzed for the first time over Desalpar (23.74° N, 70.69° E,
30 m above mean sea level) a remote site in western India during October 2014 to August …