VOC emissions of smouldering combustion from Mediterranean wildfires in central Portugal

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 339-348

  Evtyugina, Margarita ^a   Calvo, Ana Isabel ^a   Nunes, Teresa ^a   Alves, Célia ^a   Fernandes, Ana Patrícia ^a   Tarelho, Luís ^a   Vicente, Ana ^a   Pio, Casimiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Emission factors; Mediterranean forest; Trace gases; VOCs; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

EMISSION FACTORS; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST; TRACE-GASES; VOCS; WILDFIRES;

BENZENE; CARBON DIOXIDE; FIRES; HYDROCARBONS; LIPIDS; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BIOMASS;

1,3,5 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; 3 CARENE; ALPHA PHELLANDRENE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BENZALDEHYDE; BENZENE; BETA PINENE; CAMPHENE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHLOROBENZENE; CUMENE; DECANE; ETHYLBENZENE; FUEL; FURFURAL; HEPTANE; HEXANAL; HEXANE; HYDROCARBON; ISOPRENE; ISOPRENOID; LIMONENE; NONANE; PINENE; STYRENE; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; XYLENE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BENZENE; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMBUSTION; FOREST INVENTORY; ISOPRENOID; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TOLUENE; TRACE GAS; TROPOSPHERE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WILDFIRE;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; ECOSYSTEM FIRE HISTORY; EMISSION FACTOR; FIRE; GAS ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PLUME; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKE; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER; WEATHERING;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84868243587     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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