Land-Atmospheric Research Applications in South and Southeast Asia

Dr. Krishna Prasad Vadrevu is a remote sensing scientist at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.Dr. Toshimasa Ohara is a researcher at the National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES) in Japan.Dr. Chris Justice is a Professor and Head of the Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, USA.

• Foreword.- Preface.- Part 1: Regional Initiatives.- Chapter 1. SARI.- Chapter 2. SERVIR: Connecting Earth Observation Satellite data to local science applications.- Part 2: Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Biomass burning pollution and Impacts.- Chapter 3. Emission of toxic air pollutants and greenhouse gases from crop residue open burning in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 4. Impacts of biomass burning emissions on tropospheric NO2 vertical column density over continental Southeast Asia.- Chapter 5. Observations of Asian dust and agricultural fire smoke episodes: transport and impacts on regional air quality in southeast China.- Chapter 6. Spatio-temporal analysis of land and forest fire in Indonesia using MODIS active fire dataset.- Chapter 7. Severe air pollution due to peat fire during 2015 Super El Niño in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.- Chapter 8. Forest and Land Fire in Riau Province concessions: a Case study in fire-prevention policy implementation withlocal concession holders.- Chapter 9. Biomass burning emissions variation from satellite-derived land cover, burned area, and emission factors in Vietnam.- Chapter 10. Enhancement of Fire Early Warning System in Vietnam using Spatial Data and Assimilation.- Chapter 11. Greenhouse gas budget of terrestrial ecosystems in Monsoon Asia: a process-based model study for the period 1901–2014.- Chapter 12. Simulations of Emissions, Air Quality, and climate contribution in Southeast Asia for March and December.- Chapter 13. Study on lower tropospheric ozone over central and eastern China: Comparison of satellite observation with model simulation.- Chapter 14. Multi-scale simulations of atmospheric pollutants using a non-hydrostatic icosahedral atmospheric model.- Chapter 15. Project MANTRA: Multi-platform ANalysis of TRace gases and Aerosols with a focus on Atmospheric CO2 Measurements for Southeast Asia.- Chapter 16. Dry Deposition of Reactive Nitrogen species in Tropics.- Part 3: Aerosol Pollution.- Chapter 17. Aerosols and Climate Change: Present Understanding, Challenges and Future Outlook.- Chapter 18. Organic Aerosols in South and East Asia: Composition and Sources.- Chapter 19. Shortwave Radiation, Climate Change, and Anthropogenic Aerosols in China.- Chapter 20. Conceptualizing How Severe Haze Events Are Impacting Long-Term Satellite-Based Trend Studies of Aerosol Optical Thickness over Asia.- Chapter 21. Aerosol Properties Over Kuching, Sarawak from Satellite and Ground-based Measurement. Chapter 22.- Investigating the aerosol type and spatial distribution during winter fog conditions over Indo-Gangetic Plains.- Chapter 23. Satellite Aerosol Optical Depth over Vietnam, an analysis from VIIRS and CALIOP aerosol products.- Chapter 24. Satellite remote sensing of aerosols and gaseous pollution over Pakistan.- Part 4: Land Use/Cover Change and Impacts.- Chapter 25. The impact of Land cover and land use change on the Indian monsoon region Hydroclimate.- Chapter 26. Decadal Land-cover Changes in China and Their Impacts on the Atmospheric Environment.- Chapter 27. Analyzing the influence of urban growth on thermal environment through demographic, environmental and physical parameters in Bangladesh.- Chapter 28. Ecosystem carbon stock, atmosphere and food security in slash-and-burn land use.- Chapter 29. Spatial Modeling of Land Use/Land Cover Change and its Effects on Hydrology within the Lower Mekong Basin.- Chapter 30. Land-Atmosphere Interactions In South Asia: A Regional Earth Systems Perspective.