Agricultural fires and their potential impacts on regional air quality over China

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 992-1001

  Zha, Shuping ^a,b   Zhang, Shuanqin ^a   Cheng, Tiantao ^a   Chen, Jianmin ^a   Huang, Guanghan ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Wang, Quanfang ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agricultural fire; Air quality; Smoke; Transport

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AGRICULTURAL FIRES; AIR MASS TRAJECTORIES; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; REGIONAL AIR QUALITY; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; TRANSPORT;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SMOKE;

FIRES;

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; FIRE BEHAVIOR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKE;

CHINA;

EID: 84875960701     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2012.10.0277     Document Type: Article

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