LAGGED ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PUNJAB CROP-RESIDUE BURNING AND PM 2.5 POLLUTION IN DELHI-NCR: A NINE-YEAR TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS
Background: Crop residue burning in Punjab, a post harvest agricultural practice, has long been implicated as a significant driver of catastrophic air-quality deterioration in Delhi-NCR during October -November. However, the precise temporal lag and the role of meteorological confounders remain insufficiently clarified...