Abstract In September–October 2015, El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole conditions
set the stage for massive fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), leading to …

Smoke haze, caused by vegetation and peat fires in Southeast Asia, is of major concern
because of its adverse impact on regional air quality. We apply two different methods (a …

Formaldehyde (HCHO) being a high-yield product in the oxidation of most volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) emitted by fires, vegetation and anthropogenic activities, satellite …

Open biomass burning plays an important role in atmospheric pollution and in climate
change. However, the current emission inventory of open biomass burning is generally of …

Open filed biomass burning is a major contributor to airborne particulate matter and reactive
trace gases during the post-harvest season in the Northeastern China. Due to prevailing …

Open biomass burning (OBB) has significant impacts on air pollution, climate change and
potential human health. OBB has gathered wide attention but with little focus on the annual …

The Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) assimilates fire radiative power (FRP)
observations from satellite-based sensors to produce daily estimates of biomass burning …

Global burned area has declined by nearly one quarter between 1998 and 2015. Drylands
contain a large proportion of these global fires but there are important differences within the …

Globally, fires are a major source of carbon from the terrestrial biosphere to the atmosphere,
occurring on a seasonal cycle and with substantial interannual variability. To understand …

Monitoring ammonia (NH3) concentrations on a global to regional scale is a challenge. Due
to the limited availability of reliable ground‐based measurements, the determination of NH3 …