“…Furthermore, this region is densely populated, hence anthropogenic activities are also high: CO 2 emissions from transport, coal and wood burning for domestic cooking, ecosystem mass burning are common throughout the year (Garg et al, 2001). In addition to this, there are LPSs densely clustered near Delhi, along the eastern coal belt, and uniformly spread around the rest of the IG region (Garg et al, 2002;Dalvi et al, 2006, Ghude et al, 2008. Since power plants are the largest CO 2 emitters (DoE and EPA, 2000), it is interesting to observe the CO 2 hot spots and location of power plants simultaneously.…”