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Carbon Monoxide Plume over Northwestern Himalaya: A Remote Sensing and Modeling Approach

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Forest fire has a considerable impact on the atmospheric abundance of trace gases and aerosols

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Acknowledgments

We are thankful to AIRS and MODIS teams for making their satellite data freely available for scientific research. CO in-situ observation over Dehradun is funded by ISRO. SS is grateful to Head MASD, Dean Academics and Director IIRS for their encouragement and support.

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  1. Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of Space, Government of India, Dehradun, India

    S. Srivastava, I. Nandi & Y. Yarragunta

  2. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organisation, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    A. Senthil Kumar

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    A. Senthil Kumar

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Srivastava, S., Nandi, I., Yarragunta, Y., Senthil Kumar, A. (2019). Carbon Monoxide Plume over Northwestern Himalaya: A Remote Sensing and Modeling Approach. In: Navalgund, R., Kumar, A., Nandy, S. (eds) Remote Sensing of Northwest Himalayan Ecosystems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2128-3_15

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