Vegetation fires, absorbing aerosols and smoke plume characteristics in diverse biomass burning regions of Asia

In this study, researchers explored the relationships between the satellite-retrievedfire counts(FC), fire radiative power(FRP) and aerosol indices using multi-satellite datasets at a daily time-step covering ten different biomass burning regions in Asia.Wefirst assessed the variations inMODIS-retrieved aerosol optical depths (AOD’s)in agriculture,forests, plantation and peat land burning regions and then usedMODIS FC and FRP (hereafter FC/FRP)to explain the variations in AOD characteristics.

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Publication Date: 
14/10/2015
Krishna Prasad Vadrevu, Kristofer Lasko, Louis Giglio & et al
Environmental Research Letters
1-15
Attachment(s): 
Biomass burning.pdf
Tags:
Aerosols, Biomass, Asia, Forest Fires, Remote Sensing, Laos, India, Eastern Ghats, Myanmar, Cambodia, Punjab, Farm Residues, North East, Shifting Cultivation, Vietnam, Indonesia, Green House Gases