Detection and Attribution of Wildfire Pollution in the Arctic and Northern Mid-latitudes using a Network of FTIR Spectrometers and GEOS-Chem
We present a multi-year time series of column abundances of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), and ethane (C2H6) measured using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometers at ten sites affiliated with the Network for Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC). Six are high-la...
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ftorbi:oai:orbi.ulg.ac.be:2268/241410 2024-10-13T14:05:38+00:00 Detection and Attribution of Wildfire Pollution in the Arctic and Northern Mid-latitudes using a Network of FTIR Spectrometers and GEOS-Chem Lutsch, Erik Strong, Kimberly Jones, Dylan B. A. Blumenstock, Thomas Conway, Stéphanie Fisher, Jenny A. Hannigan, James W. Hase, Frank Kasai, Yasuko Mahieu, Emmanuel Makarova, Maria Morino, Isamu Nagahama, Tomoo Notholt, Justus Ortega, Ivan Palm, Mathias Poberovskii, Anatoly V. Sussmann, Ralf Warneke, Thorsten Sphères - SPHERES 2019-11-18 57 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/241410 https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/241410/1/acp-2019-881.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-881 en eng Copernicus publications Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions https://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/acp-2019-881/ https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/241410 info:hdl:2268/241410 open access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess atmospheric pollution remote sensing biomass burning Physical chemical mathematical & earth Sciences Earth sciences & physical geography Physique chimie mathématiques & sciences de la terre Sciences de la terre & géographie physique working paper http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042 info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint 2019 ftorbi https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-881 2024-09-27T07:01:47Z We present a multi-year time series of column abundances of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), and ethane (C2H6) measured using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometers at ten sites affiliated with the Network for Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC). Six are high-latitude sites: Eureka, Ny-Alesund, Thule, Kiruna, Poker Flat, and St. Petersburg , and four are mid-latitude sites: Zugspitze, Jungfraujoch, Toronto, and Rikubetsu. For each site, the inter-annual trends and seasonal variabilities of the CO time series are accounted for, allowing ambient concentrations to be determined. Enhancements above ambient levels were used to identify possible wildfire pollution events. Since the abundance of each trace gas emitted in a wildfire event is specific to the type of vegetation burned and the burning phase, correlations of CO to the long-lived wildfire tracers HCN and C2H6 allow for further confirmation of the detection of wildfire pollution, while complementary measurements of aerosol optical depth from nearby AERONET sites confirm the presence of wildfire smoke. A GEOS-Chem tagged CO simulation with Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) biomass burning emissions was used to determine the source attribution of CO concentrations at each site from 2003–2018. The influence of the various wildfire sources is found to differ between sites while North American and Asian boreal wildfires fires were found to be the greatest contributors to episodic CO enhancements in the summertime at all sites. Report Arctic Kiruna University of Liège: ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography) Arctic Eureka ENVELOPE(-85.940,-85.940,79.990,79.990) Kiruna |
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atmospheric pollution remote sensing biomass burning Physical chemical mathematical & earth Sciences Earth sciences & physical geography Physique chimie mathématiques & sciences de la terre Sciences de la terre & géographie physique Lutsch, Erik Strong, Kimberly Jones, Dylan B. A. Blumenstock, Thomas Conway, Stéphanie Fisher, Jenny A. Hannigan, James W. Hase, Frank Kasai, Yasuko Mahieu, Emmanuel Makarova, Maria Morino, Isamu Nagahama, Tomoo Notholt, Justus Ortega, Ivan Palm, Mathias Poberovskii, Anatoly V. Sussmann, Ralf Warneke, Thorsten Detection and Attribution of Wildfire Pollution in the Arctic and Northern Mid-latitudes using a Network of FTIR Spectrometers and GEOS-Chem |
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We present a multi-year time series of column abundances of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), and ethane (C2H6) measured using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometers at ten sites affiliated with the Network for Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC). Six are high-latitude sites: Eureka, Ny-Alesund, Thule, Kiruna, Poker Flat, and St. Petersburg , and four are mid-latitude sites: Zugspitze, Jungfraujoch, Toronto, and Rikubetsu. For each site, the inter-annual trends and seasonal variabilities of the CO time series are accounted for, allowing ambient concentrations to be determined. Enhancements above ambient levels were used to identify possible wildfire pollution events. Since the abundance of each trace gas emitted in a wildfire event is specific to the type of vegetation burned and the burning phase, correlations of CO to the long-lived wildfire tracers HCN and C2H6 allow for further confirmation of the detection of wildfire pollution, while complementary measurements of aerosol optical depth from nearby AERONET sites confirm the presence of wildfire smoke. A GEOS-Chem tagged CO simulation with Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) biomass burning emissions was used to determine the source attribution of CO concentrations at each site from 2003–2018. The influence of the various wildfire sources is found to differ between sites while North American and Asian boreal wildfires fires were found to be the greatest contributors to episodic CO enhancements in the summertime at all sites. |
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Lutsch, Erik Strong, Kimberly Jones, Dylan B. A. Blumenstock, Thomas Conway, Stéphanie Fisher, Jenny A. Hannigan, James W. Hase, Frank Kasai, Yasuko Mahieu, Emmanuel Makarova, Maria Morino, Isamu Nagahama, Tomoo Notholt, Justus Ortega, Ivan Palm, Mathias Poberovskii, Anatoly V. Sussmann, Ralf Warneke, Thorsten |
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Lutsch, Erik Strong, Kimberly Jones, Dylan B. A. Blumenstock, Thomas Conway, Stéphanie Fisher, Jenny A. Hannigan, James W. Hase, Frank Kasai, Yasuko Mahieu, Emmanuel Makarova, Maria Morino, Isamu Nagahama, Tomoo Notholt, Justus Ortega, Ivan Palm, Mathias Poberovskii, Anatoly V. Sussmann, Ralf Warneke, Thorsten |
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Detection and Attribution of Wildfire Pollution in the Arctic and Northern Mid-latitudes using a Network of FTIR Spectrometers and GEOS-Chem |
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Detection and Attribution of Wildfire Pollution in the Arctic and Northern Mid-latitudes using a Network of FTIR Spectrometers and GEOS-Chem |
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Detection and Attribution of Wildfire Pollution in the Arctic and Northern Mid-latitudes using a Network of FTIR Spectrometers and GEOS-Chem |
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Detection and Attribution of Wildfire Pollution in the Arctic and Northern Mid-latitudes using a Network of FTIR Spectrometers and GEOS-Chem |
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Detection and Attribution of Wildfire Pollution in the Arctic and Northern Mid-latitudes using a Network of FTIR Spectrometers and GEOS-Chem |
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detection and attribution of wildfire pollution in the arctic and northern mid-latitudes using a network of ftir spectrometers and geos-chem |
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2019 |
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https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/241410 https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/241410/1/acp-2019-881.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-881 |
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