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South American 2020 regional smoke plume: intercomparison with previous years, impact on solar radiation, and the role of Pantanal biomass burning season
Nilton Évora do Rosário
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Departamento de Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Diadema, Brazil
Elisa Thomé Sena
Departamento Multidisciplinar, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Osasco, Brazil
Marcia Akemi Yamasoe
Departamento de Ciências Atmosféricas, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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The 2020 burning season in Brazil was marked by an atypically high number of fire spots across Pantanal, leading to high amounts of smoke within the biome. This study shows that smoke over Pantanal, usually a fraction of that over Amazonia, was higher and resulted mainly from fires in conservation and indigenous areas. It also contributes to highlighting Pantanal's 2020 burning season as the worst combination of a climate extreme scenario and inadequately enforced environmental regulations.
The 2020 burning season in Brazil was marked by an atypically high number of fire spots across...
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