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Remote biomass burning dominates southern West African air pollution during the monsoon
Sophie L. Haslett
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester,
Manchester, UK
now at: Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry,
Stockholm University, Stockholm 11418, Sweden
Jonathan W. Taylor
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester,
Manchester, UK
Mathew Evans
Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, Department of Chemistry,
University of York, York, UK
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of York, York,
UK
Eleanor Morris
Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, Department of Chemistry,
University of York, York, UK
Bernhard Vogel
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Alima Dajuma
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
L'Université Félix Houphoët-Boigny, Abidjan 01, Côte
d'Ivoire
Joel Brito
Laboratory for Meteorological Physics (LaMP), University Blaise
Pascal, Aubière, France
Anneke M. Batenburg
Particle Chemistry Department, Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz/Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Stephan Borrmann
Particle Chemistry Department, Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz/Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Johannes Schneider
Particle Chemistry Department, Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz/Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Christiane Schulz
Particle Chemistry Department, Johannes Gutenberg University
Mainz/Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Cyrielle Denjean
CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS,
Toulouse, France
Thierry Bourrianne
CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS,
Toulouse, France
Peter Knippertz
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Régis Dupuy
Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Clermont
Auvergne, Aubière, France
Alfons Schwarzenböck
Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Clermont
Auvergne, Aubière, France
Daniel Sauer
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum
für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany
Cyrille Flamant
LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, CNRS, Paris, France
James Dorsey
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester,
Manchester, UK
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester,
Manchester, UK
Ian Crawford
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester,
Manchester, UK
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester,
Manchester, UK
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Short summary
Three aircraft datasets from the DACCIWA campaign in summer 2016 are used here to show there is a background mass of pollution present in the lower atmosphere in southern West Africa. We suggest that this likely comes from biomass burning in central and southern Africa, which has been carried into the region over the Atlantic Ocean. This would have a negative health impact on populations living near the coast and may alter the impact of growing city emissions on cloud formation and the monsoon.
Three aircraft datasets from the DACCIWA campaign in summer 2016 are used here to show there is...
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