Assessing the regional impact of indonesian biomass burning emissions based on organic molecular tracers and chemical mass balance modeling

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 8043-8054

  Engling, G ^a   He, J ^b   Betha, R ^c,d   Balasubramanian, R ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS BURNING; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; FOREST FIRE; HAZE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PEAT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SMOKE; TRACER;

BORNEO; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; KALIMANTAN; SINGAPORE [SINGAPORE (NTN)]; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 84906070181     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-8043-2014     Document Type: Article

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