Quantification of pollutants emitted from very large wildland fires in Southern California, USA

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 3686-3695

  Clinton, Nicholas E ^a   Gong, Peng ^b   Scott, Klaus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Carbon cycle; Carbon dioxide; Emissions; Fire; FOFEM; GIS; Modeling; Particulates; Pollution; Smoke

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SMOKE;

CARBON CYCLE; FIRST ORDER FIRE EFFECTS MODEL (FOFEM); NON-METHANE HYDROCARBONS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; FUEL; HYDROCARBON; NITROUS OXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; EMISSION; SMOKE; VEGETATION; WILDFIRE;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; FIRE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HERB; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WOODY STEM;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646850234     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.02.016     Document Type: Article

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