Studying the impact of biomass burning aerosol radiative and climate effects on the Amazon rainforest productivity with an Earth system model

Malavelle, Florent F.; Haywood, Jim M.; Mercado, Lina M.; Folberth, Gerd A.; Bellouin, Nicolas; Sitch, Stephen; Artaxo, Paulo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1301-2019

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South AMerican Biomass Burning Analysis (SAMBBA)

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Articles | Volume 19, issue 2

Research article

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31 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 31 Jan 2019

Studying the impact of biomass burning aerosol radiative and climate effects on the Amazon rainforest productivity with an Earth system model

Florent F. Malavelle, Jim M. Haywood, Lina M. Mercado, Gerd A. Folberth, Nicolas Bellouin, Stephen Sitch, and Paulo Artaxo

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Data sets

Collection 6 Aqua Product Descriptions:MYD06_L2 S. Platnick, M. King, G. Wind, S. Ackerman, P. Menzel, and R. Frey https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MYD06_L2.006

CER_SSF1deg-Month_Terra-MODIS_Edition4A G. L. Smith, T. Wong, N. McKoy, K. A. Bush, R. Hazra, N. Manalo-Smith, D. Rutan, and M. V. Mitchum https://doi.org/10.5067/Terra/CERES/SSF1degMonth_L3.004A

GPCP version 2.3 R. F. Adler, M. Sapiano, G. J. Huffman, J. Wang, G. Gu, D. Bolvin, L. Chiu, U. Schneider, A. Becker, E. Nelkin, P. Xie, D.–B. Shin, and R. Ferraro https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos9040138

FLUXCOM (RS+METEO) Global Land Carbon Fluxes using CRUNCEP climate data M. Jung, M. Reichstein, C. R. Schwalm, C. Huntingford, S. Sitch, A. Ahlstr\"{o}m, A. Arneth, G. Camps-Valls, P. Ciais, P. Friedlingstein, F. Gans, K. Ichii, A. K. Jain, E. Kato, D. Papale, B. Poulter, B. Raduly, C. R\"{o}denbeck, G. Tramontana, N. Viovy, Y.-P. Wang, U. Weber, S. Zaehle, and N. Zeng https://doi.org/10.17871/FLUXCOM_RS_METEO_CRUNCEPv6_1980_2013_v1

CRU TS4.00 Mean Temperature P. D. Jones, D. H. Lister, T. J. Osborn, C. Harpham, M. Salmon, and C. P. Morice https://doi.org/10.5285/18BE23F8-D252-482D-8AF9-5D6A2D40990C

MOD17A2 - MODIS/Terra Net Photosynthesis S. Running, Q. Mu, and M. Zhao https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD17A2.006

NCAR Command Language UCAR/NCAR/CISL/TDD https://doi.org/10.5065/D6WD3XH5

EMDI data GAIM http://gaim.unh.edu/Structure/Intercomparison/EMDI/

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Diffuse light can increase the efficiency of vegetation photosynthesis. Diffuse light results from scattering by either clouds or aerosols in the atmosphere. During the dry season biomass burning (BB) on the edges of the Amazon rainforest contributes significantly to the aerosol burden over the entire region. We show that despite a modest effect of change in light conditions, the overall impact of BB aerosols on the vegetation is still important when indirect climate feedbacks are considered.