Connecting Crop Productivity, Residue Fires, and Air Quality over Northern India.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
12 11 2019
Historique:
received: 22 04 2019
accepted: 23 10 2019
entrez: 14 11 2019
pubmed: 14 11 2019
medline: 14 11 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Northwestern India is known as the "breadbasket" of the country producing two-thirds of food grains, with wheat and rice as the principal crops grown under the crop rotation system. Agricultural data from India indicates a 25% increase in the post-monsoon rice crop production in Punjab during 2002-2016. NASA's A-train satellite sensors detect a consistent increase in the vegetation index (net 21%) and post-harvest agricultural fire activity (net ~60%) leading to nearly 43% increase in aerosol loading over the populous Indo-Gangetic Plain in northern India. The ground-level particulate matter (PM

Identifiants

pubmed: 31719586
doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-52799-x
pii: 10.1038/s41598-019-52799-x
pmc: PMC6851147
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

16594

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Auteurs

Hiren Jethva (H)

Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, 21044, USA. hiren.t.jethva@nasa.gov.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA. hiren.t.jethva@nasa.gov.

Omar Torres (O)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA.

Robert D Field (RD)

Columbia University, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, 10025, USA.

Alexei Lyapustin (A)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA.

Ritesh Gautam (R)

Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D. C., 20009, USA.

Vinay Kayetha (V)

Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Lanham, MD, 20706, USA.

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