Influence of Biomass Burning on Temporal and Diurnal Variations of Acidic Gases, Particulate Nitrate, and Sulfate in a Tropical Urban Atmosphere
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...…it has been observed that smoke haze episodes occur largely from May to October, when uncontrolled forest and peat fires take place in Indonesia, and the southwest monsoon prevails in the region (Balasubramanian et al. 2003; See et al. 2007; Betha et al. 2014; Behera and Balasubramanian 2014)....
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...From past records, it has been observed that smoke haze episodes occur largely from May to October, when uncontrolled forest and peat fires take place in Indonesia, and the southwest monsoon prevails in the region (Balasubramanian et al. 2003; See et al. 2007; Betha et al. 2014; Behera and Balasubramanian 2014)....
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...SO2 and NOx are then oxidized in the atmosphere and form (NH4)2SO4 or NH4HSO4 and NH4NO3 in the presence of NH3 under thermodynamically favorable conditions (Behera and Balasubramanian 2014)....
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...To identify the origin of sources responsible for additional pollution during the haze period, we constructed air mass trajectories reaching Singapore for different days using the HYSPLIT 4model of the Air Resources Laboratory of NOAA [54]....
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...Although it is difficult to get the sufficient precise quantification of the production of NO x from the lightning, earlier studies showed that it is potentially the largest natural source and its magnitude may be equivalent to that of man-made emissions [41]....
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