Cascading delays in the monsoon rice growing season and post-monsoon agricultural fires likely exacerbate air pollution in North India

Tianjia Liu, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Loretta J. Mickley, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Piyushkumar N Patel, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Aerosols & Clouds, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ritesh Gautam, Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, United States, Meha Jain, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, Sukhwinder Singh, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurgaon, India, Balwinder Singh, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), New Delhi, India, Ruth S DeFries, Columbia University, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, New York, NY, United States and Miriam E Marlier, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Los Angeles, United States