Emission of trace gases and aerosols from biomass burning
Meinrat O. Andreae,P. Merlet +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this article, the authors present a set of emission factors for a large variety of species emitted from biomass fires, where data were not available, they have proposed estimates based on appropriate extrapolation techniques.Abstract:
A large body of information on emissions from the various types of biomass burning has been accumulated over the past decade, to a large extent as a result of International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme/International Global Atmospheric Chemistry research activities. Yet this information has not been readily accessible to the atmospheric chemistry community because it was scattered over a large number of publications and reported in numerous different units and reference systems. We have critically evaluated the presently available data and integrated these into a consistent format. On the basis of this analysis we present a set of emission factors for a large variety of species emitted from biomass fires. Where data were not available, we have proposed estimates based on appropriate extrapolation techniques. We have derived global estimates of pyrogenic emissions for important species emitted by the various types of biomass burning and compared our estimates with results from inverse modeling studies.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Scavenging of ultrafine particles by rainfall at a boreal site: observations and model estimations
TL;DR: In this article, a model that includes below-cloud scavenging processes, mixing of ultrafine particles from the boundary layer (BL) into cloud, followed by cloud condensation nuclei activation and in-cloud removal by rainfall is presented.
Journal ArticleDOI
Time-dependent inversion estimates of global biomass-burning CO emissions using Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) measurements
Avelino F. Arellano,Avelino F. Arellano,Prasad S. Kasibhatla,Louis Giglio,Guido R. van der Werf,James T. Randerson,G. James Collatz +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, an inverse-modeling analysis of CO emissions using column CO retrievals from the Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument and a global chemical transport model (GEOS-CHEM) is presented.
Journal ArticleDOI
Non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) and their contribution to ozone formation potential in a petrochemical industrialized city, Northwest China
Chenhui Jia,Xiaoxuan Mao,Tao Huang,Xiaoxue Liang,Yanan Wang,Yanjie Shen,Wanyanhan Jiang,Huiqin Wang,Zhilin Bai,Minquan Ma,Zhousuo Yu,Jianmin Ma,Hong Gao +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the seasonal characteristics of NMHCs air pollution and their contributions to ozone formation in Lanzhou were investigated and principal component analysis (PCA) and multiple linear regression (MLR) were further applied to identify the dominant emission sources and examine their fractions in total NMHC emissions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Enhanced upper tropical tropospheric COS: impact on the stratospheric aerosol layer.
Justus Notholt,Zhiming Kuang,Curtis P. Rinsland,G. C. Toon,Markus Rex,Nicholas B. Jones,T. Albrecht,Holger Deckelmann,J. Krieg,Christine Weinzierl,Heinz Bingemer,Rolf Weller,Otto Schrems +12 more
TL;DR: The analysis of backward trajectories and global maps of fire statistics suggest that biomass-burning emissions transported upward by deep convection are the source of the enhanced COS in the upper tropical troposphere.
Journal ArticleDOI
Competition between plant functional types in the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) v. 2.0
Joe R. Melton,Vivek K. Arora +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a modified version of the Lotka-Volterra (L-V) predator-prey equations is used to simulate the fractional coverage of plant functional types (PFTs).
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Biomass Burning in the Tropics: Impact on Atmospheric Chemistry and Biogeochemical Cycles
TL;DR: Widespread burning of biomass serves to clear land for shifting cultivation, to convert forests to agricultural and pastoral lands, and to remove dry vegetation in order to promote agricultural productivity and the growth of higher yield grasses, but it may also disturb biogeochemical cycles, especially that of nitrogen.
Journal ArticleDOI
Estimates of gross and net fluxes of carbon between the biosphere and the atmosphere from biomass burning
Wolfgang Seiler,Paul J. Crutzen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated the global amounts of biomass which are affected by fires, and estimated an overall effect lof the biosphere on the atmospheric carbon dioxide budget which may range between the possibilities of a net uptake or a net release of about 2 Pg C/yr.
Journal ArticleDOI
Biomass burning as a source of atmospheric gases CO, H 2 , N 2 O, NO, CH 3 Cl and COS
Paul J. Crutzen,Leroy E. Heidt,Joseph P. Krasnec,W. H. Pollock,Wolfgang Seiler,Wolfgang Seiler +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that most biomass burning takes place in the tropics in the dry season and is caused by man's activities, which can contribute extensively to the budgets of several gases which are important in atmospheric chemistry.
Journal ArticleDOI
Soot Carbon and Excess Fine Potassium: Long-Range Transport of Combustion-Derived Aerosols
TL;DR: During a cruise from Hamburg to Montevideo, aerosol samples representing air masses from Europe, the Sahara, tropical Africa, South America, and open oceanic regions were collected and the ratio of soot carbon to fine carbon suggests that most of the particulate organic carbon over the Atlantic is of continental origin.
Global biomass burning: atmospheric, climatic, and biospheric implications.
TL;DR: The 1990 American Geophysical Union's Conference on Biochemical burning as discussed by the authors was attended by more than 175 participants representing 19 countries and discussed remote sensing data concerning biomass burning, gaseous and particle emissions resulting from BB in the tropics, BB in temperate and boreal ecosystems, the historic and prehistoric perspectives on BB, BB and global budgets for carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and the BB and the greenhouse effect.