Levoglucosan as a tracer of biomass burning: Recent progress and perspectives

H Bhattarai, E Saikawa, X Wan, H Zhu, K Ram… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biomass burning (BB) is a major source of air pollution from local to global scale, having
variable effects on air quality, human health, and climate system. Therefore, the source …

Biomass burning in Indo-China peninsula and its impacts on regional air quality and global climate change-a review

IC Yadav, NL Devi, J Li, JH Syed, G Zhang… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Although, many biomass burning (BB) emissions products (particulate matter and trace
gases) are believed to be trans-boundary pollutants that originates from India and China …

Impacts of chemical degradation on the global budget of atmospheric levoglucosan and its use as a biomass burning tracer

Y Li, TM Fu, JZ Yu, X Feng, L Zhang… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Levoglucosan has been widely used to quantitatively assess biomass burning's contribution
to ambient aerosols, but previous such assessments have not accounted for levoglucosan's …

Organic molecular tracers in the atmospheric aerosols from Lumbini, Nepal, in the northern Indo-Gangetic Plain: influence of biomass burning

X Wan, S Kang, Q Li, D Rupakheti… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
To better understand the characteristics of biomass burning in the northern Indo-Gangetic
Plain (IGP), total suspended particles were collected in a rural site, Lumbini, Nepal, during …

ACTRIS ACSM intercomparison–Part 2: Intercomparison of ME-2 organic source apportionment results from 15 individual, co-located aerosol mass spectrometers

R Fröhlich, V Crenn, A Setyan, CA Belis… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - amt.copernicus.org
Chemically resolved atmospheric aerosol data sets from the largest intercomparison of the
Aerodyne aerosol chemical speciation monitors (ACSMs) performed to date were collected …

Research progress on levoglucosan production via pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass and its effective recovery from bio-oil

IG Hakeem, P Halder, MH Marzbali, S Patel… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Production of high value biochemicals from lignocellulose biomass via pyrolysis, particularly
levoglucosan (LG) has received immense attention in recent years. LG production via fast …

Multiphase chemical kinetics of OH radical uptake by molecular organic markers of biomass burning aerosols: humidity and temperature dependence, surface …

AM Arangio, JH Slade, T Berkemeier… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Multiphase reactions of OH radicals are among the most important pathways of chemical
aging of organic aerosols in the atmosphere. Reactive uptake of OH by organic compounds …

Composition and sources of carbonaceous aerosol in the European Arctic at Zeppelin Observatory, Svalbard (2017 to 2020)

KE Yttri, A Bäcklund, F Conen… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
We analyzed long-term measurements of organic carbon, elemental carbon, and source-
specific organic tracers from 2017 to 2020 to constrain carbonaceous aerosol sources in the …

Aerosol chemistry, transport, and climatic implications during extreme biomass burning emissions over the Indo-Gangetic Plain

N Singh, T Banerjee, MP Raju… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
The large-scale emissions of airborne particulates from burning of agricultural residues
particularly over the upper Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) have often been associated with …

Change in characteristics of water-soluble and water-insoluble brown carbon aerosols during a large-scale biomass burning

R Satish, N Rastogi, A Singh, D Singh - Environmental Science and …, 2020 - Springer
Light-absorbing organic aerosol (brown carbon (BrC)) can significantly affect Earth's
radiation budget and hydrological cycle. Biomass burning (BB) is among the major sources …