Population exposure to particulate-matter and related mortality due to the Portuguese wildfires in October 2017 driven by storm Ophelia

In October 2017, hundreds of wildfires ravaged the forests of the north and centre of Portugal. The fires were fanned by strong winds as tropical storm Ophelia swept the Iberian coast, dragging up smoke (together with Saharan dust from north-western Africa) into higher western European latitudes. He...

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Main Authors: Sofia Augusto, Nuno Ratola, Patricia Tarín-Carrasco, Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero, Marco Turco, Marta Schuhmacher, Solange Costa, J.P. Teixeira, Carla Costa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-11-01
Series:Environment International
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020320110