Airborne in situ measurements of aerosol size distributions and black carbon across the Indo-Gangetic Plain during SWAAMI–RAWEX

Gogoi, Mukunda Madhab; Jayachandran, Venugopalan Nair; Vaishya, Aditya; Babu, Surendran Nair Suresh; Satheesh, Sreedharan Krishnakumari; Moorthy, Krishnaswamy Krishna

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-8593-2020

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22 Jul 2020

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Airborne in situ measurements of aerosol size distributions and black carbon across the Indo-Gangetic Plain during SWAAMI–RAWEX

Mukunda Madhab Gogoi, Venugopalan Nair Jayachandran, Aditya Vaishya, Surendran Nair Suresh Babu, Sreedharan Krishnakumari Satheesh, and Krishnaswamy Krishna Moorthy

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RC2: 'Air -borne-in-situ measurements of aerosol size distributions and BC across the IGP during SWAAMI: Gogoi et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Apr 2020
- AC2: 'Authors Response to Reviewer-2', Mukunda M Gogoi, 24 May 2020
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Extensive airborne measurements of aerosol number–size distribution and black carbon (BC) profiles are carried out for the first time across the IGP prior to the onset of the Indian summer monsoon. These measurements, combined with spaceborne sensors and model results, provided an east–west transect of the role of mineral dust (local and transported) in the aerosol loading across the IGP, with an increase in coarse mode concentration and coarse mode mass fraction with altitude.