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Environmental Sciences
Monish Vijay Deshpande, Nitish Kumar, Dhanyalekshmi Pillai, Vijesh V. Krishna, Meha Jain
Summary: This study examines crop residue burning in India and its impact on emissions. The research reveals that crop burning in India has led to significant increases in CO and greenhouse gas emissions. The states of Punjab and Madhya Pradesh are identified as the areas with the highest burning activity. By utilizing satellite data, it is possible to effectively monitor and manage crop residue burning, providing crucial insights for policy-making and interventions.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Rong Li, Xinjie He, Hong Wang, Yi Wang, Meigen Zhang, Xin Mei, Fan Zhang, Liangfu Chen
Summary: Crop residue open burning has significant adverse effects on regional air quality, climate change, and human health. This study investigates the emissions from crop residue open burning in central China from 2012 to 2020 using a statistical-based method, and finds that control policies have played a positive role in reducing the emissions.
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Engineering, Environmental
Jian Wu, Shaofei Kong, Xin Zeng, Yi Cheng, Qin Yan, Huang Zheng, Yingying Yan, Shurui Zheng, Dantong Liu, Xiaoyang Zhang, Pingqing Fu, Shuxiao Wang, Shihua Qi
Summary: The study developed a high-resolution LG emission inventory for China, revealing the impact of LG emissions on the identification of biomass burning sources and emphasizing the importance of non-BB sources in BB source contributions.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Meri M. Ruppel, Sabine Eckhardt, Antto Pesonen, Kenichiro Mizohata, Markku J. Oinonen, Andreas Stohl, August Andersson, Vivienne Jones, Sirkku Manninen, Orjan Gustafsson
Summary: This study presents long-term BC deposition and source apportionment data from Russia for the first time, indicating increasing BC fluxes between 1800 and 2014. Radiocarbon analyses show biomass as the main source for BC, with fossil fuel contributions peaking around 1960-1990. The comparison of observed and modeled data suggests the need to update anthropogenic BC emission inventories for Russia and potentially adjust wildfire emission estimates.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xinhua Hong, Chengxin Zhang, Yuan Tian, Hongyu Wu, Yizhi Zhu, Cheng Liu
Summary: Crop residue burning in rural regions of China is a major source of biomass burning and contributes to significant atmospheric pollution. Using satellite and agricultural data, we created an inventory of agricultural fire emissions from 2016 to 2020, which revealed the effectiveness of geostationary satellite monitoring in accurately measuring actual burning emissions in China. Additionally, our study assessed the impact of field burning bans in China, emphasizing the need for continuous, long-term controls to effectively reduce emissions.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ruoyu Lan, Sebastian D. Eastham, Tianjia Liu, Leslie K. Norford, Steven R. H. Barrett
Summary: Crop residue burning in India has a significant impact on air quality and health, with Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh being the major contributors. Taking action to burn crop residues two hours earlier in Punjab alone could prevent a significant number of premature deaths and have a positive economic impact.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
M. Devaprasad, N. Rastogi, R. Satish, A. Patel, A. Singh, A. Dabhi, A. Shivam, R. Bhushan, R. Meena
Summary: A large scale paddy-residue burning occurs annually in the northwest Indo-Gangetic Plain, impacting air quality in the region and the northern Indian Ocean. This study collected aerosol samples during the post-monsoon season and analyzed carbonaceous aerosols to determine bio vs non-bio contributions. The results provide valuable insights for source apportionment studies and assessing the effects of paddy-residue burning.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Andrea S. Downing, Manish Kumar, August Andersson, Amar Causevic, Orjan Gustafsson, Niraj U. Joshi, Chandra Kiran B. Krishnamurthy, Bert Scholtens, Beatrice Crona
Summary: Crop residue burning in Indian Punjab has detrimental impacts on health, climate, and agricultural production. Despite existing legal and technological barriers to burning, it continues due to lack of financial incentives for change. This study provides a systems perspective on the issue, highlighting the need for crop diversification, circular business models, and green financing. Financial institutions can play a crucial role in driving transformative changes by setting sustainability conditions on loans.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kyung M. Han, Byung T. Lee, Min-Suk Bae, Sojin Lee, Chang H. Jung, Hyun S. Kim
Summary: This study estimated crop residue burning emissions in South Korea and assessed its impact on particulate matter. The results showed that crop residue burning contributes significantly to the levels of PM10 and PM2.5, especially in Gyeongbuk and Gyeongnam provinces.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Dennis Gilfillan, Gregg Marland
Summary: Global- and national-scale inventories of CO2 emissions are important for countries to reduce emissions. The CDIAC-FF dataset, covering all countries and years since 1751, has been updated with changes in calculating CO2 emissions and analyzed for trends and unique factors driving emissions in countries. Diverse strategies are needed to mitigate carbon emissions and anthropogenic climate change.
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Anwar Al Shami, Elissar Al Aawar, Abdelkader Baayoun, Najat A. Saliba, Jonilda Kushta, Theodoros Christoudias, Issam Lakkis
Summary: Physically based computational modeling is an effective tool for estimating and predicting pollutant concentrations in complex environments. This study presents the first national effort in Lebanon to develop a detailed emission inventory for different sectors and species of pollutants.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Khaiwal Ravindra, Tanbir Singh, Suman Mor
Summary: The study found a significant increase in paddy crop residue burning activities in 2020 compared to the previous year, potentially linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, and highlighted the need for integrated approaches to reduce crop residue burning.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Pradhi Rajeev, Pravesh Chandra Shukla, Gyanesh Kumar Singh, Darpan Das, Tarun Gupta
Summary: Increasing health problems due to air pollution, specifically in regions with high particulate matter, have become a major concern. This study focuses on the evaluation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as a carcinogen in ambient particulate matter and their dominant sources, including diesel emissions, coal combustion, agricultural waste burning, wood burning, and cow-dung cake burning.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Saroj Kumar Sahu, Poonam Mangaraj, Gufran Beig, Anuja Samal, Chinmay Pradhan, Swetaleena Dash, Bhishma Tyagi
Summary: Biomass burning is a significant environmental threat in India, especially during autumn months, impacting air quality in nearby cities. Crop residue burning from rice, wheat, maize and sugarcane contributes to a large portion of PM10 emissions in the country, with winter and summer being the peak emission seasons. The developed gridded emissions inventory provides valuable data for policy makers to plan mitigation and control strategies for deteriorating air quality in various regions of India.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Juping Yan, Xiaoping Wang, Shaopeng Gao, Ping Gong, Jagdish Dotel, Balram Pokhrel
Summary: A new source apportionment method using the diagnostic ratio of NPs was established in this study. The results showed that biomass burning and vehicle emissions were the major sources of atmospheric NPs in Kathmandu and Lulang.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
K. R. Baker, M. C. Woody, G. S. Tonnesen, W. Hutzell, H. O. T. Pye, M. R. Beaver, G. Pouliot, T. Pierce
ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
(2016)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Chuen-Meei Gan, Christian Hogrefe, Rohit Mathur, Jonathan Pleim, Jia Xing, David Wong, Robert Gilliam, George Pouliot, Chao Wei
ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
(2016)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Ana G. Rappold, Jeanette Reyes, George Pouliot, Wayne E. Cascio, David Diaz-Sanchez
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Luxi Zhou, Kirk R. Baker, Sergey L. Napelenok, George Pouliot, Robert Elleman, Susan M. O'Neill, Shawn P. Urbanski, David C. Wong
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2018)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Neal Fann, Breanna Alman, Richard A. Broome, Geoffrey G. Morgan, Fay H. Johnston, George Pouliot, Ana G. Rappold
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2018)
Review
Engineering, Environmental
Volker Matthias, Jan A. Arndt, Armin Aulinger, Johannes Bieser, Hugo Denier van der Gon, Richard Kranenburg, Jeroen Kuenen, Daniel Neumann, George Pouliot, Markus Quante
JOURNAL OF THE AIR & WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
(2018)
Review
Engineering, Environmental
Melissa Day, George Pouliot, Sherri Hunt, Kirk R. Baker, Megan Beardsley, Gregory Frost, David Mobley, Heather Simon, Barron B. Henderson, Tiffany Yelverton, Venkatesh Rao
JOURNAL OF THE AIR & WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
(2019)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Ana Torres-Vazquez, Jonathan Pleim, Robert Gilliam, George Pouliot
Summary: The Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study aimed to improve the understanding of ozone chemistry and transport from New York City to the Long Island Sound and Connecticut coastline. The study found that using higher model resolutions can enhance the simulation of sea breeze circulations, low-level jets, and boundary layer evolution, resulting in improved surface meteorology statistics and more accurate ozone predictions.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kristen M. Foleya, George A. Pouliota, Alison Eytha, Michael F. Aldridge, Christine Allen, K. Wyat Appel, Jesse O. Basha, Megan Beardsleya, James Beidlerb, David Choia, Caroline Farkas, Robert C. Gilliam, Janice Godfrey, Barron H. Henderson, Christian Hogrefe, Shannon N. Koplitza, Rich Masona, Rohit Mathura, Chris Misenisa, Norm Possiela, Havala O. T. Pye, Lara Reynolds, Matthew Roark, Sarah Roberts, Donna B. Schwedea, Karl M. Seltzera, Darrell Sonntaga, Kevin Talgob, Claudia Toro, Jeff Vukovicha, Jia Xingc, Elizabeth Adamsd
Summary: The US EPA has developed annual North American emissions data for air pollutants across 18 source categories from 2002 to 2017. These data are intended to support regional air quality modeling for a variety of applications. This dataset is part of the EPA's Air Quality Time Series Project.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sarah E. Benish, Jesse O. Bash, Kristen M. Foley, K. Wyat Appel, Christian Hogrefe, Robert Gilliam, George Pouliot
Summary: The analysis evaluates wet, dry, and total N and S deposition in the contiguous US from multiyear simulations with a focus on model underestimates in certain regions and proposes a fusion approach with precipitation and bias correction to improve model performance. Trends in nitrogen and sulfur deposition vary across climatologically consistent regions in the US, with a slowdown in the rate of decline likely due to smaller emission reductions in recent years.
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Rohit Mathur, Jia Xing, Robert Gilliam, Golam Sarwar, Christian Hogrefe, Jonathan Pleim, George Pouliot, Shawn Roselle, Tanya L. Spero, David C. Wong, Jeffrey Young
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
(2017)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
K. Wyat Appel, Sergey L. Napelenok, Kristen M. Foley, Havala O. T. Pye, Christian Hogrefe, Deborah J. Luecken, Jesse O. Bash, Shawn J. Roselle, Jonathan E. Pleim, Hosein Foroutan, William T. Hutzell, George A. Pouliot, Golam Sarwar, Kathleen M. Fahey, Brett Gantt, Robert C. Gilliam, Nicholas K. Heath, Daiwen Kang, Rohit Mathur, Donna B. Schwede, Tanya L. Spero, David C. Wong, Jeffrey O. Young
GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
(2017)
Proceedings Paper
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Christian Hogrefe, George Pouliot, Jia Xing, Johannes Flemming, Shawn Roselle, Rohit Mathur, Stefano Galmarini
AIR POLLUTION MODELING AND ITS APPLICATION XXIV
(2016)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Christian Hogrefe, Peng Liu, George Pouliot, Rohit Mathur, Shawn Roselle, Johannes Flemming, Meiyun Lin, Rokjin J. Park
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
(2018)