Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Air quality impacts of crop residue burning in India and mitigation alternatives

  • Ruoyu Lan,
  • Sebastian D. Eastham,
  • Tianjia Liu,
  • Leslie K. Norford,
  • Steven R. H. Barrett

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34093-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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We quantify the air quality and health impacts of Indian crop residue burning and trace these impacts back to individual burning events by hour and district. We find that small interventions, such as burning one hour earlier in the day, may provide broad public health benefits