Smoke radiocarbon measurements from Indonesian fires provide evidence for burning of millennia-aged peat

In response to a strong El Niño, fires in Indonesia during September and October 2015 released a large amount of carbon dioxide and created a massive regional smoke cloud that severely degraded air quality in many urban centers across Southeast Asia. Although several lines of evidence indicate that...

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Main Authors: Wiggins, Elizabeth B. (Author), Czimczik, Claudia I. (Author), Santos, Guaciara M. (Author), Chen, Yang (Author), Xu, Xiaomei (Author), Holden, Sandra R. (Author), Randerson, James T. (Author), Harvey, Charles F (Author), Kai, Fuu Ming (Author), Yu, Liya E. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020-06-05T15:08:26Z.
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