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Quantitative Estimation of Dust Fall in Monsoon and Winter Seasons in Purulia Town, WB, India

Abstract

An investigation was carried out during two different seasons i.e., monsoon and winter to quantify the dust fall in ten different sites of Purulia Town of West Bengal, India. Enhancement (at 5% level of significance) in dust fall level was observed in all sample collection sites during winter than that of monsoon excluding the Bongabari area where no significant difference was recorded in dust deposition in between monsoon and winter. During monsoon highest dust fall was noticed in Bongabari area, whereas in winter period Zilla School More was found as maximum dust fall site

Moumita Sinha1*, Indrani Chatterjee2, Munmun De3, Nafisa Khatoon4, Susmita Mukherjee5

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