Articles | Volume 19, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13079-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13079-2019
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23 Oct 2019
Research article |  | 23 Oct 2019

Black carbon physical and optical properties across northern India during pre-monsoon and monsoon seasons

James Brooks, Dantong Liu, James D. Allan, Paul I. Williams, Jim Haywood, Ellie J. Highwood, Sobhan K. Kompalli, S. Suresh Babu, Sreedharan K. Satheesh, Andrew G. Turner, and Hugh Coe

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Our study presents an analysis of the vertical and horizontal black carbon properties across northern India using aircraft measurements. The Indo-Gangetic Plain saw the greatest black carbon mass concentrations during the pre-monsoon season. Two black carbon modes were recorded: a small black carbon mode (traffic emissions) in the north-west and a moderately coated mode (solid-fuel emissions) in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. In the vertical profile, absorption properties increase with height.
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