| Contents |
Sources of atmospheric pollution in India / Ramesh P. Singh and Akshansha Chauhan -- Air pollution: Facts, causes, and impacts / Atul Kumar Srivastava -- Atmospheric chemistry in Asia: Need of integrated approach / Umesh Kulshrestha and Manisha Mishra -- Atmospheric aerosols from open burning in South and Southeast Asia / Manish Kumar, Narendra Ojha and Narendra Singh -- Role of meteorology in atmospheric aerosols and air pollution over South Asia / V. Vinoj and Satyendra K. Pandey -- Role of carbonaceous aerosols in Asian pollution / Kirpa Ram -- Atmospheric pollution and solar ultraviolet radiation in Asia / Sachchidanand Singh, Amit Kumar Mishra, Sandhya Jose, and Neelesh K. Lodhi -- Distribution of reactive trace gases over South Asia: Observations and modeling / Narendra Ojha, Imran Girach, Meghna Soni, and Narendra Singh -- Response of plants to atmospheric air pollution: An Asian perspective / Arideep Mukherjee, Srishti Mishra, S.B. Agrawal, and Madhoolika Agrawal -- Air quality in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries / Ashraf Farahat -- Satellite observations of ammonia over South Asia / Shailesh K. Kharol, Enrico Dammers, Mark W. Shephard, and Karen E. Cady-Pereira -- Air quality management in India using satellite data / Sagnik Dey and Sourangsu Chowdhury -- Impact of emissions from coal-based thermal power plants on surrounding vegetation and air quality over Bokaro Thermal Power Plant / Manisha Hariram, Ravi Sahu, Anil Kumar, and Suresh Pandian Elumalai -- Ground and satellite measurements of tropospheric nitrogen oxides (NO2) over India / Vinod Kumar -- Ozone and aerosols over the Tibetan Plateau / Jianzhong Ma, Xiuji Zhou, Xiangde Xu, Xiaobin Xu, Sergey Fromov, and Jos Lelieveld -- Vertical profiles of trace gases in the troposphere over South Asia / L.K. Sahu and P.R. Sinha -- Surface ozone in Indian urban region / Rohit Sharma, Kamna Sachdeva and Anu Rani Sharma -- Biomass burning emission and impacts on air pollution in China / Hongmei Zhao -- Tropospheric ozone concentration over Pakistan / Ramsha Munir and Umer Khayyam -- Characteristics of atmospheric pollutants over the northeastern region of India / Binita Pathak and Pradip Kumar Bhuyan -- Emission of black carbon and other particulate matter from transportation sector / Mohammad Arif, Ramesh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, and Eric Zusman -- Characteristics and sources of atmospheric particulate matter and health risk in Southwest China / Yi Huang and Xin Cheng -- Sources of lead (Pb) in atmosphere over Indian cities and health impacts / Reshmi Das -- Sources of poor air quality and long-term variability over Kolkata / Abhijit Chatterjee -- Long-range global transport and characterization of dust / Ashwini Kumar, Garima Shukla and Arvind Singh -- The optical and microwave characteristics of dust storms over the Indo-Gangetic Plains / Feng Jing and Ramesh P. Singh -- Effect of cyclones on atmospheric and meteorological parameters / Akshansha Chauhan, Rajesh Kumar, Yuei-An Liou, and Ramesh P. Singh. |
| Abstract |
"Asian Atmospheric Pollution: Sources, Characteristics and Impacts provides a concise yet comprehensive treatment of all aspects of pollution and air quality monitoring, across all of Asia. It focuses on key regions of the world and details a variety of sources, their transport mechanism, long term variability and impacts on climate at local and regional scales. It also discusses the feedback on pollutants, on different meteorological parameters like radiative forcing, fog formations, precipitation, cloud characteristics and more. Drawing upon the expertise of multiple well-known authors from different countries to underline some of these key issues, it includes sections dedicated to treatment of pollutant sources, studying of pollutants and trace gases using satellite/station based observations and models, transport mechanisms, seasonal and inter-annual variability and impact on climate, health and biosphere in general. Asian Atmospheric Pollution: Sources, Characteristics and Impacts is a useful resource for scientists and students to understand the sources and dynamics of atmospheric pollution as well as their transport from one continent to other continents, helping the atmospheric modelling community to model different scenarios of the pollution, gauge its short term and long term impacts across regional to global scales and better understand the ramifications of episodic events."--Back cover. |
