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The potential of the atmosphere to disperse and dilute pollutants emitted into it by myriad sources, depends upon various factors such as wind, vertical mixing, inversion of temperature in the vertical, etc. A study of such parameters is attempted in the present article over south India. The spatial distribution of isothermals, inversions, lapse conditions, mixing heights and ventilation coefficients over south India is studied for the months of January, April, July and October, which are typical of winter, premonsoon, monsoon and post monsoon seasons, respectively. Diurnal variations are also studied.
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Viswanadham, D.V., Santosh, K.R. Air pollution potential over South India. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 48, 299–313 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00158330
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