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The nexus between climate change and public health: a global overview with perspectives for Indian cities
Climate change is widely recognized as a major threat to public health. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC AR6), assessing different Shared Socioeconomic Pathway scen...
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High-Resolution Ambient Record of Aerosols over Delhi and Associated Typical Health Effects
Atmospheric aerosols, soon after their emission, may experience changes in its chemical composition, mass concentration, size, and its optical properties. These changes are dynamic in nature and occur over a s...
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Role of Biomass Burning in Greenhouse Gases Emission
To meet electricity production and transportation, cooking, agricultural-field clearance for crop-rotation, we are consuming fossil fuels through combustion and burning the biomass. When these fuels are burnt,...
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A User-Centric Design Thinking Approach for Advancement in Off-Line PM Air Samplers: Current Status and Future Directions
In this study, we have made attempts to present a brief review of commercially available different off-line particulate matter (PM) air samplers to highlight the need of user-centric design thinking approach f...
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Introduction of Measurement, Analysis and Remediation of Environmental Pollutants
This book deals with contaminated Water, Air, Soil media and their Health Effects on population and Remedial measures to improve this situation. This book presents a synthesis with recent findings on air pollutio...
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Atmospheric abundance of HULIS during wintertime in Indo-Gangetic Plain: impact of biomass burning emissions
This study reports for the first-time the ambient concentrations of HULIS mass (HULIS-OM, Humic-like substances) and HULIS-C (carbon) in PM10 (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤ 10 μm) from the Indo-G...
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OM/OC Ratio of Polar and Non-Polar Organic Matter during Wintertime from Indo-Gangetic Plain: Implications to Regional-Scale Radiative Forcing
Ambient PM2.5 (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 μm) samples have been collected in two winter campaigns: I during 2nd December 2008‒27th February 2009 (n = 24) and II during 3rd December 2010‒11...
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Stable Carbon Isotope and Bulk Composition of Wintertime Aerosols from Kanpur
This study assesses stable carbon isotopic composition (δ13C) of total carbon (TC) in ambient aerosols (PM2.5) during wintertime (December 2014) from Kanpur (26.30 °N, 80.14 °E) in northern India. Chemical consti...
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Bioaerosols Over the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Influence of Biomass Burning Emission and Ambient Meteorology
Bioaerosols (particles of biological origin) can be produced from living or dead plants and animals. They can potentially serve as the cloud condensation and ice nuclei (CCN and IN). Their role in global carbo...
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Synergistic effect in absorption properties of brown carbon and elemental carbon over IGP during weak south-west monsoon
Recent ground-based measurements reveal that model-based observations are underestimating absorption properties and direct radiative forcing (DRF) due to carbonaceous species by a factor of 2–3 over South and ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improving Infrastructure for Transportation Systems Using Clustering
Transportation systems are called the lifeline of any urban area. Major transportation systems includes cars, taxis, buses, trams etc., which carries most of the local transport in a city. This work encourages...
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Atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and isomer ratios as tracers of biomass burning emissions in Northern India
Emission from large-scale post-harvest agricultural-waste burning (paddy-residue burning during October–November and wheat-residue burning in April–May) is a conspicuous feature in northern India. The poor and...
