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Published in final edited form as: Atmos Environ (1994). 2019 Oct 1;214:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.116883. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.116883

Table 2:

Emission factors for potassium (K) from various types of biomass burning.

Vegetation types Emission factors
(g/kg)		 References
Agricultural waste 0.28 Andreae and Merlet (2001)
Deforestation 0.29 GFED4 (Akagi et al., 2011)
Extratropical forest 0.25 Andreae and Merlet (2001)
Peat 0.28 Half of BC emission factors in GFED4 (Akagi et al., 2011)
Savanna 0.23 GFED4 (Akagi et al., 2011)
Woodland 0.28 Half of BC emission factors in GFED4 (Akagi et al., 2011)