Biomass burning
<p>Heterozygous Genotype rs17580 AT (PiS) in <em>SERPINA1</em> is Associated with COPD Secondary to Biomass-Burning and Tobacco Smoking: A Case–Control and Populational Study</p>
... to biomass-burning smoke with and without COPD) was performed using the dominant ...to biomass- burning smoke, for rs17580 the frequency of AT + TT is higher in the COPD-BS group ...to ...
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Space-based retrieval of NO 2over biomass burning regions: quantifying and reducing uncertainties
... by biomass burning aerosol measured from the C-130 aircraft during SAFARI 2000, ...and Biomass-burning Ex- periment and African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis Spe- cial Observing Period-0, ...
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The climate, the fuel and the land use: long-term regional variability of biomass burning in boreal forests
... drove millennial-scale biomass burning in boreal region with a similar fuel type (H1). In particular, in dry areas, an increase in temperature better explained changes in BB, while in wetter regions low ...
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Genotoxic potential generated by biomass burning in the Brazilian Legal Amazon by Tradescantia micronucleus bioassay: a toxicity assessment study
... by biomass burning in the Legal Amazon region, Furthermore, it showed that in situ biomonitoring using a sensitive organism (Trades- cantia pallida Purpurea) may be an important tool for monitoring air ...
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Micronucleus frequency in children exposed to biomass burning in the Brazilian Legal Amazon region: a control case study
... environment and transport them through the respiratory branches to the alveolar capillary basement membrane [10]. Fine and ultra fine particles are specially toxic to cells [11]. The presence of a complex mixture of air ...
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Local biomass burning is a dominant cause of the observed precipitation reduction in southern Africa
... burden (Supplementary Fig. 1c). In this region, the global (Community Earth System Model (CESM)) model BB and CO2BB simulations show statistically significant reductions in precipitation. The BB simulation in the regional ...
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Measurement of HONO, HNCO, and other inorganic acids by negative-ion proton-transfer chemical-ionization mass spectrometry (NI-PT-CIMS): application to biomass burning emissions
... Initial biomass burning NI-PT-CIMS measurements were performed with a low inlet flow and no dilution, but the sys- tem was too sensitive and required dilution because the high concentrations of acids ...
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A pervasive role for biomass burning in tropical high ozone/low water structures
... shown in Fig. 2 range between 0.97 and 2.85 mol mol 1 . Mauzerall et al. 34 found fresh biomass burning plumes had enhancement ratios of B0.15 mol mol 1 while plumes older than 6 days had values on the ...
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Biomass-burning smoke heights over the Amazon observed from space
... the biomass-burning ...of biomass burning emis- sions in Earth system atmospheric models and should aid our understanding of the feedbacks between drought, terrestrial ecosystems and ...
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Reactive Nitrogen Emissions from Biomass Burning and the Impact of Climate Change.
... 3 an increase in the number of observed wildfires across many regions of the US, such as the southeastern United States, the northern great plains, the Pacific coast, the southwestern US and the southern Rockies (Pinol ...
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Remote biomass burning dominates southern West African air pollution during the monsoon
... During the dry season (November-January), high concentrations of desert dust from the Sahara and local biomass burning are advected into the region. Results presented here show that high levels of ...
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Emission of Carbonaceous Species from Biomass Burning in the Traditional Rural Cooking Stove in Bangladesh
... various biomass species, including rice husk, straw, cow dung, jute stick, bagasse, bamboo, dry leaves, and woods as main fu- els for cooking foods ...[18]. Biomass burning is producing huge amount ...
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A LAB-SCALE SEMI AUTO VERTICAL TUBULAR COMBUSTOR AS A POTENTIAL PYROLYSIS FOR BIOMASS BURNING
... This paper presents a new semi auto vertical fluidized bed tubular combustor for any biomass burning. The new semi auto system is suitable for the experimental and testing platform, particularly lacking in ...
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Aromatic acids in an Arctic ice core from Svalbard: a proxy record of biomass burning
... Air mass back trajectories were used to identify potential source regions and eco-floristic zones from which biomass burning aerosols are likely to reach the Lomonosovfonna ice core site. This analysis ...
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Characterising Brazilian biomass burning emissions using WRF-Chem with MOSAIC sectional aerosol
... Biomass burning in South America is a globally significant source of carbonaceous aerosol (black carbon (BC) and or- ganic carbon (OC)) (Streets et ...this biomass burning aerosol (BBA) ...
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Impacts of Amazonia biomass burning aerosols assessed from short-range weather forecasts
... In this study PROG and CLIM BBA tended to reduce mean precipitation by around 5 % (0.06 mm day −1 ; Ta- ble 2), although PROG gave a small increase on day 2 (0.02 mm day −1 ). It can be speculated that such reductions ...
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AN INVESTIGATION OF NITROUS AND NITRIC ACID DIURNAL CYCLES IN BIOMASS BURNING PLUMES
... The Western wildfire Experient for Cloud chemistry, Aerosol absorption, and Nitrogen (WE-CAN), an NSF funded multi-platform campaign, launched with the goal of expanding scientific knowledge of the complex chemical ...
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The biomass burning contribution to climate–carbon-cycle feedback
... of biomass burning (Arneth et ...of biomass burning to the climate–carbon-cycle feedback has been quantified only once (Ward et ...from biomass burning to be small and of ...
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Fire and climate: Biomass burning recorded in ice and lake cores
... released burning products). Biomass burning aerosols have a significant anthropogenic component with a significant direct radiative forcing ...mass burning-related aerosol radiative forcing ...
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Effect of secondary organic aerosol coating thickness on the real-time detection and characterization of biomass-burning soot by two particle mass spectrometers
... sive SOA coating experiments. The plotted points are 10 min averages for four batch chamber experiments using differ- ent initial soot core sizes. We determined the SOA mass per particle using the method described in ...
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