Impact of wild-land fires on European air quality in 2006-2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 119, Issue , 2008, Pages 353-361

  Sofiev, M ^a   Lanne, M ^a   Vankevich, R ^b   Prank, M ^a   Karppinen, A ^a   Kukkonen, J ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Air quality; Dispersion modelling; Fire assimilation system; Wild land fires

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MODIS; REAL TIME; SIMULATION; WILDFIRE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 58849160106     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/FIVA080351     Document Type: Article

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