Local and transboundary factors' impacts on trace gases and aerosol during haze episode in 2015 El Niño in Malaysia
Date
2018
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Elsevier
Abstract
Southeast Asian haze is a semi-natural phenomenon that chokes the region each year during the dry monsoon season. Smoke-haze episodes caused by the vegetation and peat fires in Indonesia severely affected large parts of Malaysia during the 2015 El Niño phenomenon. This study aimed to evaluate the factors that influenced the concentrations of aerosol and trace gases during the 2015 haze and non-haze period on a semi-urban site in the southern part of Malaysian peninsula that facing Sumatra (Muar, Site A), and on an urban site near to Kuala Lumpur, influenced by the city centre (Cheras, Site B).
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Keywords
Haze episode, El Niño , Transport air mass, Land use, Fire hotspots
Citation
Samsuddin, N. A. C., Khan, M. F., Maulud, K. N. A., Hamid, A. H., Munna, F. T., Ab Rahim, M. A., Latif, M.T., & Akhtaruzzaman, M. (2018). Local and transboundary factors' impacts on trace gases and aerosol during haze episode in 2015 El Niño in Malaysia. Science of the total environment, 630, 1502-1514.