The vertical profile of atmospheric heating rate of black carbon aerosols at Kanpur in northern India

• Published in: Atmospheric environment (1994) Vol. 41; no. 32; pp. 6909 - 6915
• Main Authors: Tripathi, S.N., Srivastava, Atul K., Dey, Sagnik, Satheesh, S.K., Krishnamoorthy, K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2007; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Atmospheric pollution; Black carbon profile; Exact sciences and technology; Heating rate; Northern India; Pollutants physicochemistry study: properties, effects, reactions, transport and distribution; Pollution; Asia; India; Uttar Pradesh; India, Uttar Pradesh, Unnao Dist., Kanpur; Pollution; Black carbon profile; Heating rate; Northern India; Combustion residue; Carbonaceous materials; Visa; Summer; Environmental factor; Measurement campaign; Urban area; Time variation; Turbulent mixing; Winter; Seasonal variation; Atmospheric boundary layer; Aircraft observation; Aerosols; Air pollution; Concentration distribution; Altitudinal distribution

Altitude profiles of the mass concentrations of aerosol black carbon (BC) and composite aerosols were obtained from the collocated measurements of these quantities onboard an aircraft, over the urban area of Kanpur, in the Ganga basin of northern India during summer, for the first time in India. The...