Effects from open rice straw burning emission on air quality in the Bangkok metropolitan region

ScienceAsia

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 339-345

  Tipayarom, Danutawat ^a   Oanh, Nguyen Thi Kim ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Forward trajectory; Hotspot; Rice straw open burning; Satellite imagery

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948883275     PISSN: 15131874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.2007.33.339     Document Type: Article

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