Trends in eastern China agricultural fire emissions derived from a combination of geostationary (Himawari) and polar (VIIRS) orbiter fire radiative power products

Zhang, Tianran; de Jong, Mark C.; Wooster, Martin J.; Xu, Weidong; Wang, Lili

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10687-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10687-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10687-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 20, issue 17

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11 Sep 2020

Research article |

| 11 Sep 2020

Trends in eastern China agricultural fire emissions derived from a combination of geostationary (Himawari) and polar (VIIRS) orbiter fire radiative power products

Tianran Zhang, Mark C. de Jong, Martin J. Wooster, Weidong Xu, and Lili Wang

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Gridded daily Agricultural Burning Emission Inventory of Eastern China, 2012-2015, V0.0 T. Zhang, M. de Jong, M. Wooster, and W. Xu https://doi.org/10.5285/1d70803fab8f46ba983b730ede52421f

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With strong public concern regarding air pollution problems in eastern China, where megacities like Beijing and Shanghai are located, smoke from agricultural fires burning during the post-harvest season has been blamed as one of the major causes. This research uses advanced satellite remote sensing data and methods to estimate the smoke emissions from agricultural fires in eastern China. Up to a 22 % contribution to PM_2.5 was found during extreme cases.