Predicting countrywide PM2.5 concentration and associated mortality in India based on GAM model using aerosol optical depth and meteorological parameters


Shovan Kumar Sahu1, Venkatesh Chejarla Reddy2, Vidhya Ganesh Rangarajan3, Rishikesh Bharti4, Rajya Garaga2, Hongliang Zhang5, Jianlin Hu6, Qi Ying7 and Sri Harsha Kota8, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Civil Engineering, Guwahati, India, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Earth Sciences, Kanpur, India, (4)Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Civil Engineering, Guwahati, India, (5)Fudan University, Shanghai, China, (6)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing, China, (7)Texas A&M University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College Station, United States, (8)Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Department of Civil Engineering, Guwahati, India