Particulate emissions from large North American wildfires estimated using a new top-down method

Nikonovas, Tadas; North, Peter R. J.; Doerr, Stefan H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6423-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 10

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 6423–6438, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6423-2017

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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 6423–6438, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6423-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 10

Research article 30 May 2017

Research article | 30 May 2017

Particulate emissions from large North American wildfires estimated using a new top-down method

Tadas Nikonovas et al.

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RC1: 'Review of T. Nikonovas et al., 2016', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Aug 2016
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer's comments', Tadas Nikonovas, 02 Feb 2017
RC2: 'Referee comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Dec 2016
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer's comments', Tadas Nikonovas, 02 Feb 2017

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AR by Tadas Nikonovas on behalf of the Authors (03 Feb 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (16 Feb 2017) by Ashu Dastoor

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (20 Mar 2017)

ED: Publish as is (14 Apr 2017) by Ashu Dastoor

Short summary

The study presents a new method for estimating particulate matter emissions from large wildfires. The method relies solely on satellite observations of fire activity and particles suspended in the atmosphere. The results indicate that temperate and boreal forest fires in North America emit similar amounts of particles per unit of fire radiative power. The findings differ from estimates by modelling studies which suggest much larger emissions for boreal events compared to temperate fires.