Development of the crop residue and rangeland burning in the 2014 National Emissions Inventory using information from multiple sources.

ABSTRACT: Biomass burning has been identified as an important contributor to the degradation of air quality because of its impact on ozone and particulate matter. One component of the biomass burning inventory, crop residue burning, has been poorly characterized in the National Emissions Inventory (NEI). In the 2011 NEI, wildland fires, prescribed fires, and crop residue burning collectively were the largest source of PM_2.5. This paper summarizes our 2014 NEI method to estimate crop residue burning emissions and grass/pasture burning emissions using remote sensing data and field information and literature-based, crop-specific emission factors. We focus on both the postharvest and pre-harvest burning that takes place with bluegrass, corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, sugarcane and wheat. Estima

SUBMITTER: Pouliot G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6088810 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature