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El Niño driven haze over the Southern Malaysian Peninsula and Borneo by Md Firoz Khan; Ahmad Hazuwan Hamid; Haasyimah Ab Rahim; Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud; Mohd Talib Latif; Mohd Shahrul Mohd Nadzir; Mazrura Sahani; Kai Qin; Prashant Kumar; Helena Varkkey; Mohammad Rashed Iqbal Faruque; Ng Chee Guan; Seyedeh Parisa Ahmadi; Sumiani Yusoff is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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The Southeast Asian (SEA) region is no stranger to forest fires - the region has been suffering from severe air pollution (known locally as 'haze') as a result of these fires, for decades. The fires in SEA region are caused by a combination of natural (the El Niño weather pattern) and manmade (slash-and-burn and land clearing for plantations) factors. These fires cause the emissions of toxic aerosols and pollutants that can affect millions of people in the region. Thus, this study aims to identify the impact of the SEA haze on the Southern region of the Malaysian Peninsula and Borneo region of East Malaysia using the entire air quality observation data at surface level in 2015. Overall, the concentration of PM was about two-fold higher during the haze period compared to non-haze period. The concentrations of CO, flux of CO and flux of BC were aligned with PM during the entire observation period. The wind field and cluster of trajectory indicated that the Southern Malaysian Peninsula and Borneo were influenced mainly from the wildfires and the combustion of peat soil in the Indonesian Borneo. This study finds that wildfires from Borneo impacted the Southern Malaysian Borneo more ser
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- Author
- Md Firoz Khan; Ahmad Hazuwan Hamid; Haasyimah Ab Rahim; Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud; Mohd Talib Latif; Mohd Shahrul Mohd Nadzir; Mazrura Sahani; Kai Qin; Prashant Kumar; Helena Varkkey; Mohammad Rashed Iqbal Faruque; Ng Chee Guan; Seyedeh Parisa Ahmadi; Sumiani Yusoff
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV; Publons (ISSN 0048-9697)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)