Modelling and prediction of air pollutant transport during the 2014 biomass burning and forest fires in peninsular Southeast Asia

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1-23

  Duc, Hiep Nguyen ^a,b   Bang, Ho Quoc ^c   Quang, Ngo Xuan ^a,d  

^a TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^c Institute for Environment and Resources Vietnam National University   (Viet Nam)

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL BIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; CALIPSO aerosol types; Hybrid Single particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT); Modelling; MODIS aerosol optical depth; Southeast Asia; Weather research forecast (WRF)

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BIOMASS; DEFORESTATION; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES; FORESTRY; MODELS; POLLUTION; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL TYPES; BIOMASS-BURNING; LAGRANGIAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WEATHER RESEARCH FORECASTS;

AIR POLLUTION;

CARBON MONOXIDE; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; DANGEROUS GOODS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SMOKE;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS BURNING; CALIPSO; DRY SEASON; FOREST FIRE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS BURNING; CAMBODIA; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DRY SEASON; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOREST FIRE; HONG KONG; LAOS; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MYANMAR; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; SEASON; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAIWAN; THAILAND; VIET NAM; WIND; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL MODEL; DANGEROUS GOODS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE; FOREST; PROCEDURES; SMOKE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHINA; HONG KONG; LAOS; MYANMAR; TAIWAN; THAILAND; VIET NAM;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; FORESTS; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS; SMOKE;

EID: 84955264282     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-016-5106-9     Document Type: Article

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