Detection of delay in post-monsoon agricultural burning across Punjab, India: potential drivers and consequences for air quality

Since the Green Revolution in the mid-1960s, a widespread transition to a rice–wheat rotation in the Indian state of Punjab has led to steady increases in crop yield and production. After harvest of the summer monsoon rice crop, the burning of excess crop residue in Punjab from October to November a...

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Main Authors: Tianjia Liu, Loretta J Mickley, Ritesh Gautam, Manoj K Singh, Ruth S DeFries, Miriam E Marlier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abcc28