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Long-term change in aerosol characteristics over Indo-Gangetic Basin: How significant is the impact of emerging anthropogenic activities?

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Long-term aerosol characteristics were assessed over the Indo-Gangetic Basin (IGB) using satellite-derived aerosol properties from January 2007 to December 2017. The study shows steadily high aerosol optical depth (AOD ~0.7) with a decadal increasing trend (~20%) over the IGB. Angstrom exponent (AE) shows a relatively large increasing trend at Lucknow in the central IGB (~25%) as compared to Delhi in the north-west IGB (~18%), which suggests relative increase in fine-mode aerosols at Lucknow (~30%). Though, single scattering albedo (SSA) does not show any considerable decadal trend at both the stations, the ultraviolet-aerosol index (UV-AI) shows an increasing trend, with a pronounced increase at Delhi (~26%) compared to Lucknow (~20%). Result suggests relative dominance of absorbing dust aerosols over Delhi. Further, to understand the impact of emerging activities, analyses were done in two sub-periods: 2007–2012 and 2013–2017. Interestingly, a relative increasing trend in AOD (~31%) is observed at Delhi compared to Lucknow during 2007–2012, which was observed at Lucknow (~22%) during 2013–2017. The emission inventory corroborates with the trend and variability of optical properties for different sub-periods, and results show intense development activities in the region have an influence on vertical as well as horizontal aerosol load.
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3. Instrumentations and data analysis
3.1. MODIS data
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3.2. OMI data
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3.3. Trend analysis
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4. Results and discussion
4.1. Spatio-temporal distribution of decadal mean AOD during 20072017
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01$ 0.46 \0.06 0.0064 15.18 0.04 0.66 \0.07 0.011 18.38 0.049
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*  DC 0.76 \0.53 0.00031 40.52 0.035 864 0.78 \0.59 0.000214 27.34 0.039 890
 DC 1.49 \0.36 0.00016 10.81 0.024 864 1.43 \0.40 0.000001 0.07 0.026 890
..  DC 0.93 \0.02 0.00002 1.81 0.003 197 0.92 \0.02 0.000012 1.24 0.003 172
01$ 0.63 \0.42 0.00028 44.71 0.03 742 0.73 \0.46 0.000318 43.43 0.033 730
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*  DC 0.55 \0.32 0.000015 3.68 0.018 1209 0.57 \0.32 0.000065 15.5 0.018 1229
 DC 0.82 \0.59 0.000434 70.79 0.033 1209 0.77 \0.54 0.000303 53.02 0.03 1229
..  DC 0.92 \0.03 0.000005 0.67 0.002 774 0.92 \0.02 0.000001 0.21 0.002 803
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 DC  \       \     
..  DC 0.94 \0.02 0.000031 3.31 0.006 61 0.93 \0.02 0.000024 2.58 0.004 111
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*  DC 0.76 \0.36 0.000305 26.83 0.029 624 0.88 \0.52 0.000283 21.5 0.04 650
 DC 1.46 \0.34 0.000163 7.47 0.026 624 1.35 \0.40 0.000141 7.01 0.03 650
..  DC 0.92 \0.02 0.000024 1.72 0.003 155 0.91 \0.02 0.000019 1.37 0.003 137
01$ 0.88 \0.63 0.000696 53.29 0.056 492 1.24 \0.75 0.000576 31.11 0.067 486
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4.7. Potential implications of the study
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Table 4
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