Large-Scale Haze over Eurasia in July 2016

Аннотация

This paper reports the estimated scales of optically dense haze over Eurasia for the period from July 15 to July 31, 2016, including the Siberian smoky haze (with a smoke area of 16.3 million km²) over Siberia and European Russia, and also many countries of Europe, Kazakhstan, and other countries of Asia, the human-induced smog over the North Chinese Plain (about 2 million km²), dusty haze in the Takla-Makan Desert (about 0.8 million km²), and haze over India and Pakistan (approximately 1 million km²).