Sentences with phrase «biomass burning»

About 20 percent of black carbon emissions come from biomass burning sourced from activities like cooking.

As the rate of biomass burning increases, so do the impacts to human health.

Evolution of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of air pollutants at global and regional scales during the 1980 - 2010 period.

We divide our aerosols into categories according to whether they were produced by transportation, power generation, industrial activity, domestic burning or open biomass burning.

The map above shows the predicted global warming impact of all anthropogenic emissions, including biomass burning, on global near - surface air temperature since 1850.

Can recent growth rate anomalies in the greenhouse gases be attributed to large - scale biomass burning events?

The work will help reveal the extent to which particles emitted during biomass burning influence cloud processes in ways that affect global temperatures.

Exposure to biomass burning particles is strongly associated with cardiovascular disease, respiratory illness, lung cancer, asthma and low birth weights.

They essentially allow biomass burning to cause much more global warming per unit weight than other human - associated carbon sources.

Open biomass burning is the largest source of black carbon worldwide, followed by residential energy.

They showed that smoke from biomass burning aerosols reduced the cloud droplet size and increased the cloud reflectance for smoke optical depth up to 0.8.

A five - year investigation, ORACLES is examining the impact aerosols from biomass burning in southern Africa has on climate as it mixes with clouds over the southeast Atlantic Ocean.

«If you're serious about addressing global warming, you have to deal with biomass burning as well.»

«Reduced Biomass Burning Emissions Reconcile Conflicting Estimates of the Post-2006 Atmospheric Methane Budget.»

One focus was on 27 biomass burning power plants in the EU, ten of which were former coal power stations converted to run on biomass or to be co-fired with a mixture of biomass and coal.

Biomass burning also includes the combustion of agricultural and lumber waste for energy production.

Interannual variability in global biomass burning emissions from 1997 to 2004.

The results suggest biomass burning of polluted forest fuels may exacerbate poor air quality — and related health concerns — in some of the world's most heavily polluted areas, among them, the Los Angeles metropolitan area, which is expected to suffer from more wildfires as drought conditions continue.

«As the rate of biomass burning increases, so do the impacts to human health,» Jacobson said.

FIREX - Related Biomass Burning Research Using ARM Single - Particle Soot Photometer Field Campaign Report.

The models» composite annual mean OA surface air concentrations exceed 0.5 microgram of carbon per cubic meter across most continental regions, as shown at the left of Fig. 3, with maximum concentrations primarily over biomass burning regions and secondarily over industrialized areas.

The aerosol plume produced by biomass burning at the end of the dry season contains black carbon that absorbs radiation.

Fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning cause a high aerosol loading.

Of that net gain, we've calculated that biomass burning accounts for about 0.4 C.»

The «live» map time - series animations illustrate the real - time movement (in three - hourly updates) of aerosols, such as dust, biomass burning particulates, sulphates and sea salt.

Carbonaceous aerosol emission inventories suggest that approximately 34 to 38 % of emissions come from biomass burning sources and the remainder from fossil fuel burning sources.

Jacobson explains that total anthropogenic, or human - created, carbon dioxide emissions, excluding biomass burning, now stand at more than 39 billion tons annually.

If biomass burning is the source, then perc [levels] should behave quite differently from the two hydrocarbons, and this is what we observed.»

The results so far show only a correlation between fires and water cycle indicators, but the data gathered from the study is allowing scientists to improve climate models to be able to establish a more direct relationship between biomass burning and its impacts on drought.

Indonesia and Malaysia are forest biomass burning hotspots.

I was thinking too far ahead... and worrying about the pre-industrial biomass burning estimates that we need for our new control runs that haven't been released yet....

Jacob Sørensen, activist of NOAH and participant of the action: «It is unfortunate that the EU regards biomass burning as a renewable energy source.

Only three Parties (France, Sweden and Switzerland) included fuelwood consumption in the sub-category changes in forest and other woody biomass stocks, but other Parties (Canada, Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States) reported biomass burning in the fuel consumption sub-categories.

Meanwhile, scientists have determined that biomass burning generates more CO2 emissions per kWh than burning coal does, and the projected rapid growth in biofuel use will only serve to «increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century».

Then there are regulatory or legislative pressures on EPA to categorize biomass burning as carbon - neutral in the regulations that comprise the Clean Power Plan.

The latest controversy centers on EPA's proposed rule to characterize biomass burning as a carbon - neutral replacement for fossil fuels under the Clean Power Plan — an issue covered smartly in June 2016 by the Washington Post and in October 2016 by New York Times economic columnist Eduardo Porter.

Detailed analysis of the results suggests that year - round surface emissions of CO, probably from fossil fuel burning in East Asia, and seasonal biomass burning emissions in South - central Africa, are greatly underestimated in current inventories used to drive models.

While biomass burning is implicated for the Younger Dryas increase (e.g., Firestone et al., 2007), the amount of burning during the Tunguska event is too small to account for the ammonium increase of > 200 ppb (Melott et al., 2010).

Image at right: Natural and anthropogenic biomass burning, such as forest fires and the burning of fields in the tropics, produce black carbon aerosols, i.e., soot.