Influence of Southeast Asian Haze episodes on high PM10 concentrations across Brunei Darussalam

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 219, Issue , 2016, Pages 337-352

  Dotse, Sam Quarcoo ^a,b   Dagar, Lalit ^a,b   Petra, Mohammad Iskandar ^a,b   De Silva, Liyanage C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Meteorological variables; PM10; Receptor modeling; Southeast Asia Haze; Temporal spatial characteristics

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RAIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WIND;

LONG-TERM MONITORING DATUM; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RECEPTOR MODEL; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL-SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS;

RADIOMETERS;

RAIN; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HAZE; METEOROLOGY; MODELING; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BRUNEI DARUSSALAM; CLIMATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HAZE; HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WIND DIRECTION; WIND SPEED; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTOR; WIND;

BORNEO; BRUNEI DARUSSALAM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BRUNEI; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WIND;

EID: 84994056191     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.10.059     Document Type: Article

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