Emission of gaseous mercury from the Japanese prescribed open biomass burning

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This is our first article demonstrating the overview of our approach. The approach has been tested by other scientists overseas, but it has not been applied to the Japanese biomass burning studies because forest fires are rare in Japan and the biomass burning emissions have ever been treated insignificant. The local event of prescribed biomass burning takes place once in a year, thus, the extent of each emission may not be very large. But more importantly, its significance has not ever been evaluated.

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