Surface ozone concentration and its behaviour with aerosols in the northwestern Himalaya, India

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 44-53

  Sharma, Priyanka ^a,b   Kuniyal, Jagdish Chandra ^a   Chand, Kesar ^a   Guleria, Raj Paul ^a   Dhyani, Pitamber Prasad ^a   Chauhan, Chetan ^b  

^a G B PANT INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (India)

^b SHOOLINI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

BC; Indian Himalaya; Photochemical pollution; PM10; PM2.5; Surface ozone

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL MASS CONCENTRATION; AIR MASS; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; BC; BLACK CARBON; DIURNAL VARIATION; FAIR WEATHER; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIMALAYAS; LAGRANGIAN; MASS CONCENTRATION; MAXIMUM CONCENTRATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL POLLUTION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; RATE OF INCREASE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGLE PARTICLE; SOLAR FLUX; SURFACE OZONE; SURFACE OZONE CONCENTRATIONS;

AEROSOLS; OZONE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; TRAJECTORIES;

AIR POLLUTION;

BLACK CARBON; OZONE; RAIN;

AEROSOL; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIURNAL VARIATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RAINFALL; SOLAR RADIATION; URBAN AREA; WEATHER;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INDIA; METEOROLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; SURFACE PROPERTY; URBAN AREA; WINTER;

HIMACHAL PRADESH; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; KULLU;

EID: 84874363517     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.12.042     Document Type: Article

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