Multiple site ground-based evaluation of carbonaceous aerosol mass concentrations retrieved from CAMS and MERRA-2 over the Indo-Gangetic Plain
Ashish Soni, Anil Kumar Mandariya, Pradhi Rajeev, Saifi Izhar, Gyanesh Kumar Singh, Vikram Choudhary, Adnan Mateen Qadri, Aman Deep Gupta, Amit Kumar Singh, Tarun Gupta
Abstract
Objectives: (a) ground-truthing of black and organic aerosol mass simulated by CAMS and MERRA-2, (b) identification of different atmospheric processes that propagated errors in these reanalysis datasets.
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AerosolEnvironmental scienceHydrology (agriculture)MeteorologyGeologyGeographyGeotechnical engineeringAtmospheric and Environmental Gas DynamicsAtmospheric chemistry and aerosolsAtmospheric aerosols and clouds