Identifying fire plumes in the Arctic with tropospheric FTIR measurements and transport models

Viatte, C.; Strong, K.; Hannigan, J.; Nussbaumer, E.; Emmons, L. K.; Conway, S.; Paton-Walsh, C.; Hartley, J.; Benmergui, J.; Lin, J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-2227-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-2227-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-2227-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

Research article

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02 Mar 2015

Research article |

| 02 Mar 2015

Identifying fire plumes in the Arctic with tropospheric FTIR measurements and transport models

C. Viatte, K. Strong, J. Hannigan, E. Nussbaumer, L. K. Emmons, S. Conway, C. Paton-Walsh, J. Hartley, J. Benmergui, and J. Lin

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RC C9383: 'Review of paper by C. Viatte et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 Nov 2014
RC C10209: 'Review of Viatte et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 16 Dec 2014
AC C11470: 'responses for referees', camille Viatte, 24 Jan 2015
AC C11594: 'erratum responses to reviewers', camille Viatte, 26 Jan 2015

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AR by Camille Viatte on behalf of the Authors (30 Jan 2015)

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Seven tropospheric species (CO, HCN, C2H6, C2H2, CH3OH, HCOOH, and H2CO) released by biomass burning events transported to the high Arctic were monitored with two sets of FTIR measurements, located at Eureka (Nunavut, Canada) and Thule (Greenland), from 2008 to 2012. We compared these data sets with the MOZART-4 chemical transport model to help improve its simulations in the Arctic. Emission factors of these biomass burning products were derived and compared to the literature.