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ArticleScientific reports2020

On the widespread enhancement in fine particulate matter across the Indo-Gangetic Plain towards winter.

Narendra Ojha, Amit Sharma, Manish Kumar, Imran Girach, Tabish U Ansari, Som K Sharma, Narendra Singh, Andrea Pozzer, Sachin S Gunthe

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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21 citing papers in PubMed, 236 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Narendra OjhaSpace and Atmospheric Sciences division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India. ojha@prl.res.in.
Amit SharmaEWRE Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
Manish KumarAtmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany.
Imran GirachSpace Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Tabish U AnsariLancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
Som K SharmaSpace and Atmospheric Sciences division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India.
Narendra SinghAryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES), Nainital, India.
Andrea PozzerAtmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany.
Sachin S GuntheEWRE Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. s.gunthe@iitm.ac.in.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras · INMax Planck Institute for Chemistry · DEPhysical Research Laboratory · INAryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences · INLancaster University · GBVikram Sarabhai Space Centre · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fine particulate matter (PM

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