The MERRA-2 aerosol reanalysis, 1980 onward. Part I: System description and data assimilation evaluation

CA Randles, AM Da Silva, V Buchard… - Journal of …, 2017‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, version 2
(MERRA-2), updates NASA's previous satellite-era (1980 onward) reanalysis system to …

Advances in understanding, models and parameterizations of biosphere-atmosphere ammonia exchange

CR Flechard, RS Massad, B Loubet, E Personne… - …, 2013‏ - bg.copernicus.org
Atmospheric ammonia (NH 3) dominates global emissions of total reactive nitrogen (N r),
while emissions from agricultural production systems contribute about two-thirds of global …

Air pollutant emissions from global food systems are responsible for environmental impacts, crop losses and mortality

M Crippa, E Solazzo, D Guizzardi, R Van Dingenen… - Nature Food, 2022‏ - nature.com
Food systems are important contributors to global emissions of air pollutants. Here, building
on the EDGAR-FOOD database of greenhouse gas emissions, we estimate major air …

Decline in atmospheric nitrogen deposition in China between 2010 and 2020

L Liu, Z Wen, S Liu, X Zhang, X Liu - Nature Geoscience, 2024‏ - nature.com
The deposition of atmospheric nitrogen sourced from emissions has broad environmental
consequences, but long-term measurements of recent air pollution control and nitrogen …

Satellite contributions to the quantitative characterization of biomass burning for climate modeling

C Ichoku, R Kahn, M Chin - Atmospheric Research, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Characterization of biomass burning from space has been the subject of an extensive body
of literature published over the last few decades. Given the importance of this topic, we …

Agricultural ammonia emissions in China: reconciling bottom-up and top-down estimates

L Zhang, Y Chen, Y Zhao, DK Henze… - Atmospheric …, 2018‏ - acp.copernicus.org
Current estimates of agricultural ammonia (NH 3) emissions in China differ by more than a
factor of 2, hindering our understanding of their environmental consequences. Here we …

Inequality of household consumption and air pollution-related deaths in China

H Zhao, G Geng, Q Zhang, SJ Davis, X Li, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Substantial quantities of air pollution and related health impacts are ultimately attributable to
household consumption. However, how consumption pattern affects air pollution impacts …

Ammonia emissions in the United States, European Union, and China derived by high‐resolution inversion of ammonium wet deposition data: Interpretation with a …

F Paulot, DJ Jacob, RW Pinder, JO Bash… - Journal of …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
We use the adjoint of a global 3‐D chemical transport model (GEOS‐Chem) to optimize
ammonia (NH3) emissions in the US, European Union, and China by inversion of 2005 …

Improved attribution of climate forcing to emissions

DT Shindell, G Faluvegi, DM Koch, GA Schmidt… - Science, 2009‏ - science.org
Evaluating multicomponent climate change mitigation strategies requires knowledge of the
diverse direct and indirect effects of emissions. Methane, ozone, and aerosols are linked …

Significant atmospheric aerosol pollution caused by world food cultivation

SE Bauer, K Tsigaridis, R Miller - Geophysical Research Letters, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Particulate matter is a major concern for public health, causing cancer and cardiopulmonary
mortality. Therefore, governments in most industrialized countries monitor and set limits for …