Tethered balloon-born and ground-based measurements of black carbon and particulate profiles within the lower troposphere during the foggy period in Delhi, India

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 573, Issue , 2016, Pages 894-905

  Bisht, D S ^a   Tiwari, S ^a   Dumka, U C ^b   Srivastava, A K ^a   Safai, P D ^a   Ghude, S D ^a   Chate, D M ^a   Rao, P S P ^a   Ali, K ^a   Prabhakaran, T ^a   Panickar, A S ^a   Soni, V K ^c   Attri, S D ^c   Tunved, P ^d   Chakrabarty, R K ^e   Hopke, P K ^f  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b ARYABHATTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCES ARIES   (India)

^c Indian Metrological Department   (India)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic; Biomass biofuel; Black carbon; Climate change; Tethered balloon

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BALLOONS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; LIGHT EXTINCTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL DIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; AEROSOL LIGHT EXTINCTION; ANTHROPOGENIC; ATMOSPHERIC HEATING RATE; BLACK CARBON; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TETHERED BALLOON;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

BLACK CARBON; FOSSIL FUEL;

AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BALLOON OBSERVATION; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS; BLACK CARBON; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOG; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICULATE MATTER; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BIOMASS; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COOLING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOG; GENERAL DEVICE; HEATING; INDIA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PILOT STUDY; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOOT; SURFACE PROPERTY; TETHERED BALLOON; TROPOSPHERE; VISIBILITY; WARMING; WINTER;

DELHI; INDIA; NEW DELHI;

EID: 84985014402     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.08.185     Document Type: Article

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