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)

Pawar, H.; Garg, S.; Kumar, V.; Sachan, H.; Arya, R.; Sarkar, C.; Chandra, B. P.; Sinha, B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-9501-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-9501-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-9501-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 16

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26 Aug 2015

Research article |

| 26 Aug 2015

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)

H. Pawar, S. Garg, V. Kumar, H. Sachan, R. Arya, C. Sarkar, B. P. Chandra, and B. Sinha

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RC C3515: 'Comments from referee', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Jun 2015
- AC C4346: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #2', Baerbel Sinha, 05 Jul 2015
RC C5200: 'Comments on Pawar et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Jul 2015
- AC C5891: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #1', Baerbel Sinha, 13 Aug 2015

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We quantify the contribution of long-range transport to PM levels in the NW-IGP through back-trajectory climatology analysis. Transport from the west significantly enhanced coarse- and fine-mode PM mass loadings during all seasons. Local pollution episodes enhanced coarse-mode PM only during winter and fine-mode PM during winter and summer seasons. South-easterly air masses (source region: SE-IGP) were associated with significantly lower fine- and coarse-mode PM mass loadings during all seasons.