Day and night variability of atmospheric organic and elemental carbon during winter of 2011-12 in Agra, India

Sustainable Environment Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 107-116

  Pipal, Atar Singh ^a   Jan, Rohi ^a   Bisht, Deewan Singh ^b   Srivastava, Atul Kumar ^b   Tiwari, Suresh ^b   Taneja, Ajay ^a  

^a DR B R AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Carbonaceous aerosols; India; Secondary organic aerosol

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; FOSSIL FUELS; SECONDARY EMISSION;

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; BLACK CARBON; CARBONACEOUS AEROSOL; FOSSIL FUEL COMBUSTION; INDIA; ORGANIC AND ELEMENTAL CARBON; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; THERMAL-OPTICAL TRANSMITTANCE;

ORGANIC CARBON;

EID: 84902177716     PISSN: 24682039     EISSN: 24682039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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