Biomasa ako hlavný zdroj znečistenia ovzdušia v Južnej Azií
Pridané: 23.2.2018 10:19:58 Počet zobrazení: 2820
23 Február 2018
V časopise PROFIT z 28.01.2009 sa okrem iného môžete dočítať i o hrozbe ktorú prináša spaľovanie dreva a teda i u nás tak presadzovanej biomasy. Je najvyšší čas sa zamyslieť nad prioritami a prehodnotiť naše možnosti zabezpečovania tepla!
Science 23 January 2009:
Vol. 323. no. 5913, pp. 495 - 498
DOI: 10.1126/science.1164857
Prev | Table of Contents | Next
Reports
Brown Clouds over South Asia: Biomass or Fossil Fuel Combustion?
Örjan Gustafsson,1* Martin Kruså,1 Zdenek Zencak,1 Rebecca J. Sheesley,1 Lennart Granat,2 Erik Engström,2 P. S. Praveen,3 P. S. P. Rao,4 Caroline Leck,2 Henning Rodhe2
Carbonaceous aerosols cause strong atmospheric heating and large surface cooling that is as important to South Asian climate forcing as greenhouse gases, yet the aerosol sources are poorly understood. Emission inventory models suggest that biofuel burning accounts for 50 to 90% of emissions, whereas the elemental composition of ambient aerosols points to fossil fuel combustion. We used radiocarbon measurements of winter monsoon aerosols from western India and the Indian Ocean to determine that biomass combustion produced two-thirds of the bulk carbonaceous aerosols, as well as one-half and two-thirds of two black carbon subfractions, respectively. These constraints show that both biomass combustion (such as residential cooking and agricultural burning) and fossil fuel combustion should be targeted to mitigate climate effects and improve air quality.
1 Department of Applied Environmental Science, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
2 Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
3 Maldives Climate Observatory at Hanimaadhoo (MCOH), Republic of the Maldives.
4 Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune 411 008, India.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: orjan.gustafsson@itm.su.se
Read the Full Text
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The editors suggest the following Related Resources on Science sites:
In Science Magazine
PERSPECTIVES
ATMOSPHERE: Sources of Asian Haze
Sönke Szidat (23 January 2009)
Science 323 (5913), 470. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1169407]
| Summary » | Full Text » | PDF »