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Asian brown cloud

layer of air pollution that recurrently covers the northern Indian Ocean, India, and Pakistan
Class type of: air pollution Q2528157

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
recurring event
Location
South Asia, Indian Ocean[2][3]
Subclass of
air pollution[4]
Facet of
air pollution, air pollution in India, air pollution in Pakistan[8][9][10]
Color
brown[5]
Has cause
Stubble burning[6]
Number of deaths
2000000.0[7]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Climate change[11]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 2
Freebase ID
/m/0jzy6
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780609418

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🔗 Connections
Facet of 2
air pollution, air pollution in India
Location 2
Indian Ocean, South Asia
Color 1
brown
Has cause 1
Stubble burning
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Climate change
Subclass of 1
air pollution
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Summary

Asian brown cloud is a recurring event[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Pollution cloud over south Asia is increasing ill health. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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