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Examining the competing effects of contemporary land management vs. land cover changes on global air quality
Anthony Y. H. Wong
Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Land cover change and land management are considered to have important and distinct impacts on air quality. Here we use remote sensing products and agricultural emission inventories to characterize contemporary global land cover and land management changes for chemical transport model simulations. We find that contemporary land system change has a significant impact on global air quality, with land management dominating the effects on PM and land cover change dominating the impacts on ozone.
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