Funeral Pyres in South Asia: Brown Carbon Aerosol Emissions and Climate Impacts

Environmental Science and Technology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 44-48

  Chakrabarty, Rajan K ^a   Pervez, Shamsh ^b   Chow, Judith C ^a   Watson, John G ^a   Dewangan, Shippi ^b   Robles, Jerome ^a   Tian, Guoxun ^a,c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PT RAVISHANKAR SHUKLA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

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EID: 84969220031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ez4000669     Document Type: Article

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