The role of biomass burning as derived from the tropospheric CO vertical profiles measured by IAGOS aircraft in 2002–2017

Petetin, Hervé; Sauvage, Bastien; Parrington, Mark; Clark, Hannah; Fontaine, Alain; Athier, Gilles; Blot, Romain; Boulanger, Damien; Cousin, Jean-Marc; Nédélec, Philippe; Thouret, Valérie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17277-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17277-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17277-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 23

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06 Dec 2018

Research article |

| 06 Dec 2018

The role of biomass burning as derived from the tropospheric CO vertical profiles measured by IAGOS aircraft in 2002–2017

Hervé Petetin, Bastien Sauvage, Mark Parrington, Hannah Clark, Alain Fontaine, Gilles Athier, Romain Blot, Damien Boulanger, Jean-Marc Cousin, Philippe Nédélec, and Valérie Thouret

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17277-2018-supplement

Data sets

IAGOS ancillary data: CO contributions data B. Sauvage, A. Fontaine, and D. Boulanger. https://doi.org/10.25326/3

Model code and software

SOFT-IO: SOft attribution using FlexparT and carbon monoxide emission inventories for In-situ Observation database B Sauvage, A. Auby, and A. Fontaine https://doi.org/10.25326/2

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This study derives a climatology of the impact of biomass burning versus anthropogenic emissions on the strongest CO plumes observed in the troposphere based on a dataset of about 30 000 in situ vertical profiles, combined with Lagrangian simulations coupled to CO emission. Results demonstrate the large contribution of biomass burning to the strongest CO plumes encountered in the troposphere in many locations of the world.