Radiocarbon-based source apportionment of elemental carbon aerosols at two South Asian receptor observatories over a full annual cycle

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Budhavant, Krishnakant ^a   Andersson, August ^b   Bosch, Carme ^b   Kruså, Martin ^b   Kirillova, E N ^b   Sheesley, R J ^b,d   Safai, P D ^c   Rao, P S P ^c   Gustafsson, Örjan ^b  

^a Maldives Climate Observatory at Hanimaadhoo (MCOH)   (Maldives)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^d BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

14C; air pollution; black carbon; India; isotope; Maldives; organic carbon

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; ISOTOPES; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC CARBON;

BLACK CARBON; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; FOSSIL FUEL COMBUSTION; INDIA; MALDIVES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ANNUAL CYCLE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS BURNING; BLACK CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON; POLLUTION MONITORING; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; MALDIVES; SINHAGAD;

EID: 84937510348     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064004     Document Type: Article

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