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Air Pollution in India
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- The NASA announced that Air Pollution in India has reached 20 year low.
- According to the data published by NASA, the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) in 2020 has been the least as compared to the average of 2016 to 2019.
- Aerosol Optical Depth is absorption of light by airborne particles in the atmosphere.
- The aerosols are particles in atmosphere released due to anthropogenic activities
- The Aerosol Optical Depth is the quantitative measure of aerosols present in the atmosphere.
- It measures the extinction of light when it passes through the atmosphere.
- As AOD increases, the rate of extinction of light increases.
