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SUBMITTER: Marlier ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4219417 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature climate change 20130101
Emissions from landscape fires affect both climate and air quality<sup>1</sup>. In this study, we combine satellite-derived fire estimates and atmospheric modeling to quantify health effects from fire emissions in Southeast Asia from 1997 to 2006. This region has large interannual variability in fire activity due to coupling between El Niño-induced droughts and anthropogenic land use change<sup>2,3</sup>. We show that during strong El Niño years, fires contribute up to 200 μg/m<sup>3</sup> and 5 ...[more]