Crop residue burning: A threat to South Asian air quality

Eos (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 37, 2014, Pages 333-334

  Singh, Ramesh P ^a   Kaskaoutis, Dimitris G ^b  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Crop residue; MODIS; Smog and Fog

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908702753     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: 23249250     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014EO370001     Document Type: Article

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