Quantifying the contribution of long-range transport to particulate matter (PM) mass loadings at a suburban site in the north-western Indo-Gangetic Plain (NW-IGP)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 9501-9520

  Pawar, H ^a   Garg, S ^a   Kumar, V ^a   Sachan, H ^a   Arya, R ^a,b   Sarkar, C ^a   Chandra, B P ^a   Sinha, B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH MOHALI   (India)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; PARTICULATE MATTER; SUBURBAN AREA; SUSPENDED LOAD;

AFGHANISTAN; ARABIAN PENINSULA; GANGETIC PLAIN; THAR DESERT;

EID: 84940403579     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-9501-2015     Document Type: Article

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