Enhancement of BC concentration associated with Diwali festival in India

Author

Singh, Ramesh P. ; Sharma, Manish

Author_Institution

Sch. of Earth & Environ. Sci., Chapman Univ., Orange, CA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

3685

Lastpage

3688

Abstract

Diwali festival in India is popularly known as the “festival of illumination”, celebrated between mid-October and mid-November of each year depending upon Hindu calendar. During this festival, people light their houses with candles and oil lamps and play with crackers and have fireworks one or two days prior to Diwali day especially in urban areas. The air quality is found to degrade on the Diwali day and this continues for few days after Diwali. The atmospheric aerosol loading is found to increase abruptly after Diwali. In the present paper, we discuss changes in black carbon concentration and total ozone column associated with Diwali festival.

Keywords

aerosols; air pollution; atmospheric composition; atmospheric techniques; carbon; ozone; BC concentration; C; Diwali festival; Hindu calendar; India; O₃; air quality; atmospheric aerosol loading; black carbon concentration; candles; fireworks; oil lamps; total ozone column; Aerosols; Carbon; Carbon dioxide; Cities and towns; Gases; Pollution; Pollution measurement; Diwali festival; air quality; black carbon; total ozone column;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350616

Filename

6350616