Examining the competing effects of contemporary land management vs. land cover changes on global air quality
2021 Wong AYH and Geddes JA. Examining the competing effects of contemporary land management vs. land cover changes on global air quality, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi: 10.5194/acp-21-16479-2021
In this publication, we used satellite-derived land cover products from 1995-2015, in combination with global chemical transport modeling, to examine how land cover and land management changes may have impacted air quality. We find that in some parts of the world, the impacts of land cover changes can be just as important as direct changes in anthropogenic pollutant emissions over this time scale. The results have important implications for predicting changes in air quality over century time scales, which often do not account for changes in land cover emissions comprehensively.