Recent trends in tropospheric NO2 over India observed by SCIAMACHY: Identification of hot spots

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 354-361

  Ramachandran, Arya ^a   Jain, Nayan K ^b   Sharma, Shashikant A ^a   Pallipad, Jayaprasad ^a  

^a Indian Space Research Organization Space Application Centre   (India)

^b GUJARAT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Air pollution in India; Air quality; Industrial emission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885658680     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2013.040     Document Type: Article

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