Significant atmospheric aerosol pollution caused by world food cultivation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 5394-5400

  Bauer, Susanne E ^a,b   Tsigaridis, Kostas ^a,b   Miller, Ron ^b,c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

agricultural sector; particulate pollution

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AGRICULTURE; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMBUSTION; CULTIVATION; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL EMISSIONS; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; AGRICULTURAL SECTOR; ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; FERTILIZER APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; PARTICULATE POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION;

AEROSOL; AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AIR QUALITY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CULTIVATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOOD PRODUCTION; NITROGEN; PARTICULATE MATTER; TROPOSPHERE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84971425603     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068354     Document Type: Article

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