Contribution of vegetation and peat fires to particulate air pollution in Southeast Asia

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Reddington, C L ^a   Yoshioka, M ^a   Balasubramanian, R ^b   Ridley, D ^c   Toh, Y Y ^d   Arnold, S R ^a   Spracklen, D V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d Environmental Studies Division   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

aerosol; air pollution; air quality; particulate matter; smoke transport; Southeast Asia; vegetation fires

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY;

PARTICULATE AIR POLLUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SMOKE TRANSPORT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VEGETATION FIRE;

AEROSOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PEAT; URBAN AREA;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84907686183     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/9/094006     Document Type: Article

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