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What could have caused pre-industrial biomass burning emissions to exceed current rates?
G. R. van der Werf
Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
W. Peters
Department of Meteorology and Air Quality, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
T. T. van Leeuwen
Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
L. Giglio
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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