What is it about?
Agricultural fire smoke and long-range transport can result in air pollution in the regional scale; and the remote sensing from the satellite and lidar sensors can help evaluate such pollution impacts and the model forecast.
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Why is it important?
The paper quantifies the big impacts of agricultural fire smoke on the ground air quality and the optical characteristics such as absorption and its spectral dependence. Modeling such events and their effects need the evaluation from the the satellite, lidar and ground measurements.
Perspectives
We have developed the methodology to quantify the agricultural biomass burning effects on the air quality and aerosol optical properties. Further work will need to analyze how they interact with the planetary boundary layer (PBL) and affect on the PBL process and climate radiation, precipitation.
Dr. Yonghua Wu
the City College of New York
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This page is a summary of: An agricultural biomass burning episode in eastern China: Transport, optical properties, and impacts on regional air quality, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU),
DOI: 10.1002/2016jd025319.
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