Tabish Umar Ansari

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Do physical removal processes such as dry deposition also determine atmospheric lifetime of chemical species?

Atmospheric chemical species can "live" in the atmosphere from only a second to several years. Is this lifetime conventionally determined only from their chemical destruction/transformation...

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How do we distinguish between primary and secondary aerosols during measurements?

Secondary aerosols are becoming a huge concern during pollution episodes esp. in cities. They can make up to 50% by mass of the total aerosol loading at a given time. While it is clear that some...

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Are inorganic aerosols (SO4, NO3, NH4 etc) predominantly secondary?

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