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Articles | Volume 20, issue 12
Articles | Volume 20, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7459-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7459-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 20, issue 12
Research article
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26 Jun 2020
Research article |  | 26 Jun 2020

Long-term brown carbon and smoke tracer observations in Bogotá, Colombia: association with medium-range transport of biomass burning plumes

Juan Manuel Rincón-Riveros, Maria Alejandra Rincón-Caro, Amy P. Sullivan, Juan Felipe Mendez-Espinosa, Luis Carlos Belalcazar, Miguel Quirama Aguilar, and Ricardo Morales Betancourt

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Air pollution affects health for millions of people worldwide. This is particularly worrisome for citizens in emerging economies where air quality is often heavily deteriorated. We show how, every year, agricultural burns and forest fires in the grasslands of northern South America increase the concentration of harmful particles in the environment, further worsening air quality for nearly 60 million in this region, even when the fires occur hundreds of kilometers away from urban areas.
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