Quantifying Carbon Monoxide Emissions on the Scale of Large Wildfires

Bela, M. M.; Kille, N.; McKeen, S. A.; Romero‐Alvarez, J.; Ahmadov, R.; James, E.; Pereira, G.; Schmidt, C.; Pierce, R. B.; O’Neill, S. M.; Zhang, X.; Kondragunta, S.; Wiedinmyer, C.; Volkamer, R.

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Quantifying Carbon Monoxide Emissions on the Scale of Large Wildfires

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2022
By Bela, M. M. ; Kille, N. ; McKeen, S. A. ; ...

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Journal Title:

Geophysical Research Letters
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Bela, M. M. ; Kille, N. ; McKeen, S. A. ; Romero‐Alvarez, J. ; Ahmadov, R. ; James, E. ; Pereira, G. ; Schmidt, C. ; Pierce, R. B. ; O’Neill, S. M. ; Zhang, X. ; Kondragunta, S. ; Wiedinmyer, C. ; Volkamer, R.
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NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) ; CSL (Chemical Sciences Laboratory) ; GSL (Global Systems Laboratory) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research)
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The University of Colorado Airborne Solar Occultation Flux (CU AirSOF) instrument conducted the first suborbital carbon monoxide (CO) mass flux measurements on the scale of large wildfires, showing that the destructive fires in northern California in October 2017 emitted 2,040 ± 316 tonnes CO hr−1. Pyrogenic estimates from seven satellite-based emission inventories bracket the observed flux, but their range spans a factor of 83. The simulated air quality impacts in the form of ozone and fine particulate matter scale primarily with these uncertain emission amounts, and range from insignificant to very severe. This uncertainty in predicting emissions is reduced to a factor of ∼2 by the CU AirSOF flux measurements, with potential for
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General Earth And Planetary Sciences Geophysics General Earth And Planetary Sciences General Earth And Planetary Sciences
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Geophysical Research Letters, 49(3)
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gl095831
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0094-8276 ; 1944-8007
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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Journal Article
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Grant no. NA17OAR4320101
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