Sources and levels of particulate matter in North African and Sub-Saharan cities: a literature review

L Naidja, H Ali-Khodja, S Khardi - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2018 - Springer
In order to assess the significance of PM in ambient air, it is necessary to evaluate their
physical and chemical characteristics as well as identify their major emission sources. On a …

Emission of trace gases and aerosols from biomass burning

MO Andreae, P Merlet - Global biogeochemical cycles, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
A large body of information on emissions from the various types of biomass burning has
been accumulated over the past decade, to a large extent as a result of International …

Quantifying wildfires exposure for investigating health-related effects

H Youssouf, C Liousse, L Roblou, EM Assamoi… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - Elsevier
A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the
countryside or a wilderness area. The United Nation International Strategy for Disaster …

Carbon emissions from fires in tropical and subtropical ecosystems

GR Van Der Werf, JT Randerson… - Global Change …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Global carbon emissions from fires are difficult to quantify and have the potential to influence
interannual variability and long‐term trends in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. We used 4 …

Satellite‐observed pollution from Southern Hemisphere biomass burning

DP Edwards, LK Emmons, JC Gille… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Biomass burning is a major source of pollution in the tropical Southern Hemisphere, and fine
mode carbonaceous particles are produced by the same combustion processes that emit …

Explosive growth in African combustion emissions from 2005 to 2030

C Liousse, E Assamoi, P Criqui… - Environmental …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Emissions of gases and particles from the combustion of fossil fuels and biofuels in Africa
are expected to increase significantly in the near future due to the rapid growth of African …

Isoprene emission estimates and uncertainties for the Central African EXPRESSO study domain

A Guenther, B Baugh, G Brasseur… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
A global three‐dimensional (3‐D) chemistry and transport model was used to demonstrate
that a factor of 2 decrease in isoprene and monoterpene emissions results in significant (10 …

Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006

S Janicot, CD Thorncroft, A Ali, N Asencio… - Annales …, 2008 - angeo.copernicus.org
The AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis) program is dedicated to providing a
better understanding of the West African monsoon and its influence on the physical …

Fire impacts on vegetation in Central Africa: a remote-sensing-based statistical analysis

G Bucini, EF Lambin - Applied Geography, 2002 - Elsevier
The objectives of this study were to understand the role of fires on land-cover changes, and
conversely the role of vegetation cover as a controlling factor of fires. The study, which was …

Global spatiotemporal completion of daily high-resolution TCCO from TROPOMI over land using a swath-based local ensemble learning method

Y Wang, Q Yuan, S Zhou, L Zhang - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2022 - Elsevier
At present, the daily global Total Column carbon monoxide (CO)(TCCO) product from
TROPOMI is performed at the highest spatial resolution, which has been broadly adopted in …