Source apportionment of ultrafine particles in urban Europe.

There is a body of evidence that ultrafine particles (UFP, those with diameters ≤ 100 nm) might have significant impacts on health. Accordingly, identifying sources of UFP is essential to develop abatement policies. This study focuses on urban Europe, and aims at identifying sources and quantifying their contributions to particle number size distribution (PNSD) using receptor modelling (Positive Matrix Factorization, PMF), and evaluating long-term trends of these source contributions using the non-parametric Theil-Sen's method.

Thermodynamical framework for effective mitigation of high aerosol loading in the Indo-Gangetic Plain during winter.

The Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) experiences severe air pollution every winter, with ammonium chloride and ammonium nitrate as the major inorganic fractions of fine aerosols. Many past attempts to tackle air pollution in the IGP were inadequate, as they targeted a subset of the primary pollutants in an environment where the majority of the particulate matter burden is secondary in nature. Here, we provide new mechanistic insight into aerosol mitigation by integrating the ISORROPIA-II thermodynamical model with high-resolution simultaneous measurements of precursor gases and aerosols.

Enhanced secondary aerosol formation driven by excess ammonia during fog episodes in Delhi, India.

The Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) has high wintertime fine aerosol loadings that significantly modulate the widespread fog formation and sustenance. Here, we investigate the potential formation of secondary inorganic aerosol driven by excess ammonia during winter fog. Physicochemical properties of fine aerosols (PM and PM) and trace gases (HCl, HONO, HNO, SO, and NH) were simultaneously monitored at hourly resolution using Monitor for AeRosols and Gases in Ambient air (MARGA-2S) for the first time in India.

Characterization of atmospheric trace gases and water soluble inorganic chemical ions of PM and PM at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi during 2017-18 winter.

Water soluble inorganic chemical ions of PM and PM and atmospheric trace gases were monitored simultaneously on hourly resolution at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), Delhi during 8 December 2017-10 February 2018. Monitoring was made by MARGA (Monitoring AeRosol and Gases in ambient Air) under winter fog experiment (WIFEX) program of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India. The result based on the analysis of the data so generated reveals that Cl, NH, NO and SO were dominant ions in order which collectively constituted 96.

Characterization and source identification of PM and its chemical and carbonaceous constituents during Winter Fog Experiment 2015-16 at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi.

Data on mass concentration of PM and its carbonaceous and water soluble inorganic chemical ions were compiled through sampling of PM at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi during Dec. 16, 2015-Feb. 15, 2016 under Winter Fog Experiment (WIFEX) program of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and analysing the samples.