Fig. 4: Schematic interpreting the impacts of northern Indian BC reduction due to lockdown and southern Indian BC increase due to intensified crop residue burning during the Indian premonsoon season for the COVID-19 pandemic case. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Schematic interpreting the impacts of northern Indian BC reduction due to lockdown and southern Indian BC increase due to intensified crop residue burning during the Indian premonsoon season for the COVID-19 pandemic case.

From: Black carbon-climate interactions regulate dust burdens over India revealed during COVID-19

Fig. 4

With the reductions of northern Indian BC and DU, the subsequent Indian summer monsoon outbreak is delayed. Note that the proposed mechanisms work not only for the COVID-19 case but also is valid in the long-term statistics.

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