Black carbon and elemental carbon from postharvest agricultural-waste burning emissions in the Indo-Gangetic plain

Advances in Meteorology

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Singh, Atinderpal ^a   Rajput, Prashant ^b   Sharma, Deepti ^a   Sarin, M M ^b   Singh, Darshan ^a  

^a PUNJABI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

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EID: 84897896099     PISSN: 16879309     EISSN: 16879317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/179301     Document Type: Article

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