In April 2017, an Air Quality Monitoring Station (AQMS), first of its kind in Haryana, has been established in the campus in collaboration with Indian Instituteof Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune. This versatile system, shown in the figure below, yields

24x7 high-resolution data composed of 22 parameters (PM1, PM2.5, PM10, CO, CO2, NOx, NO2, NO, NH3, SO2, O3, Benzene, Ethyl Benzene, Toluene, Xylene, Wind Speed, Wind Direction, Temperature, Humidity, Pressure and Rainfall), describing the quality of air in and around the AUH campus in Panchgaon. This emission inventory serves, in conjunction with such data from other network stations in the country, as valuable reference input to the models to predict or forecast the local and regional airquality.

Amity Installed Air Pollution Tracking Unit :

In a collaborative research effort, a global network station of NASA AERONET(AErosolRObotic NET wok) site has been successfully established in May 2017 on the roof-top of Academic Block-A of Amity University Haryana, Panchgaon-Manesar-Gurgaon for regional air quality and climate research (Figure 2). The valuable data sets (column-integrated aerosol optical depth, aerosol size distribution, aerosol refractive

index, fine-mode and coarse-mode aerosol fractions, single scattering albedo, phase function, asymmetry parameter, water vapor and current satellite and long-range transport model trajectories) from this real-time sun-sky radiometer provides understanding of almost complete characterization of aerosols over different environments. These real-time, network observations yield radiative forcing due to aerosols and various gases to the earth-atmosphere radiation balance, which plays a vital role in climate change. These datasets have also been found valuable for developing models for forecast purpose and for calibrating the satellitesensors.

A cutting-edge technology-based next generation Polar Integrating Nephelometer for atmospheric research has been installed under a Academia-Industry cooperative research program between AUH, Gurgaon and Ecotech Pty Ltd Australia (Figure 3). This world-class experimental facility hasbeen installed at Ecotech make Aurora 4000 Polar Integrating Nephelometer at AUH, Panchgaon-Manesar-Gurgaon

AUH, Gurgaon in June 2017 for carrying out the investigations on the state of the atmosphere, in terms of scattering and absorption of several types of aerosols and gaseous species prevailing in the University campus. The information content of this facility would be very valuable for (i) estimation of integrated total scattering coefficient (indicator of air quality), (ii) spectral variation of scattering coefficienttoderiveparticlesizedistribution,(iii)estimationofhorizontalvisibilityandlevelofpollution, (iv) determination of particle refractive index and composition, (v) determination of asymmetry factor, (vi) particle shape and roughness and (vii) model calibration and validation of radiation transfer through the atmosphere.