High cloud forming potential of anthropogenic sulfate aerosols arising from SO2 emissions of a coal-fired power plant during relatively cleaner conditions of Covid lockdown in India
Aishwarya Singh1,2, Subha S Raj1,3, Upasana Panda1,4, Snehitha M. Kommula1, Mira L. Pöhlker3, Narendra Ojha5, Vijay P. Kanawade6, Scot T Martin7, Ulrich Poeschl3, Meinrat O Andreae3, Pengfei Liu8 and Sachin S Gunthe1,2, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Department of Civil Engineering, Chennai, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, Chennai, India, (3)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (4)CSIR Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Environmental Sustainability, Bhubhaneswar, India, (5)Physical Research Laboratory, Space and Atmospheric Sciences Division, Ahmedabad, India, (6)University of Hyderabad, Centre for Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Hyderabad, India, (7)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (8)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States