The intensive observation campaign for the 2024 crop residue burning season began at the end of September, and the Aakash project is deploying 32 CUPI-Gs over a wide area from Punjab to Delhi again in 2024 to collect real-time observation data on air pollutants. The latest air pollution observation data obtained from the campaign is available on this page.
Aakash CUPI-G measurements are conducted through an India-Japan collaboration by : Yutaka Matsumi, Tomoki Nakayama, Sachiko Hayashida, Prabir K. Patra, Natsuko Yasutomi, Hikaru Araki, Tanbir Singh, Akash Biswal, Poonam Mangaraj, Sanjeev Bhardwaj, Manpreet S. Bhatti, Surendra K. Dhaka, A. P. Dimri, Ravindra Khaiwal, Sahil Kumar, Ravikumar Kunchala, Prakhar Misra, Tuhin K. Mandal, Sahil Mor, Suman Mor, Aka Sharma, Narendra Singh, Kamal Vatta, Vimal Jose Vazhathara, Rekha Yadav
Field measurement and survey support in India is provided by : Centers for International Projects Trust (CIPT), New Delhi.
FLEXPART model simulations are performed by : Masayuki Takigawa, JAMSTEC.
RIHN Aakash data analysis team : Hikaru Araki, Akash Biswal, Poonam Mangaraj, Natsuko Yasutomi
Website maintained by : Kaede Ohashi and Natsuko Yasutomi
1. Hourly mean PM2.5 and CO data (September – November 2022, 2023, 2024)
Hourly mean PM2.5 data from “Weak coupling of observed surface PM2.5 in Delhi-NCR with rice crop residue burning in Punjab and Haryana”
・Readme of CUPI-G data
・CUPI-G PM2.5 and CO hourly averaged data 2022 (Zip archive of csv files)
・CUPI-G PM2.5 and CO hourly averaged data 2023 (Zip archive of csv files)
・CUPI-G PM2.5 and CO hourly averaged data 2024 (Zip archive of csv files)
・CUPIG_locations
(Data Published on 2025.01.16)
2. Weekly update from 2024 intensive field campaign
Active Fire Report *2025 Jan. 21 updated
3. Weekly status of PM2.5 and associated meteorological conditions
Results of RIHN Aakash Intensive Field Campaign studies in Nov. 2024
*Data details from September 27 to November 9
4. Weekly update from 2023 intensive field campaign
Active Fire Report *2024 Dec. 4 updated
5. Weekly status of PM2.5 and associated meteorological conditions
Results of RIHN Aakash Intensive Field Campaign studies in Oct. – Nov. 2023
- Week 13 (Nov. 24 – Nov. 30)
- Week 12 (Nov. 17 – Nov. 23)
- Week 11 (Nov. 10 – Nov. 16)
- Week 10 (Nov. 03 – Nov. 09)
- Week 9 (Oct. 27 – Nov. 02)
- Week 8 (Oct. 20 – Oct. 26)
- Week 7 (Oct. 13 – Oct. 19)
- Week 6 (Oct. 06 – Oct. 12)
- Week 5 (Sep. 29 – Oct. 05)
6. Daily mean PM2.5 data (September – November 2022)
Daily mean PM2.5 data from “Very high particulate pollution over northwest India captured by a high-density in situ sensor network”
・Readme of CUPI-G data
・CUPI-G PM2.5 daily averaged data (Zip archive of csv files)
・CUPIG_locations
(Data Published on 2023.08.23)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Appropriate referencing and acknowledgment to the data sources must be made. Users are strongly encouraged to contact the Aakash Project leader (prabir［a］chikyu.ac.jp) or a member of the project at RIHN for more information
