Satellite-derived emissions of carbon monoxide, ammonia, and nitrogen dioxide from the 2016 Horse River wildfire in the Fort McMurray area

Adams, Cristen; McLinden, Chris A.; Shephard, Mark W.; Dickson, Nolan; Dammers, Enrico; Chen, Jack; Makar, Paul; Cady-Pereira, Karen E.; Tam, Naomi; Kharol, Shailesh K.; Lamsal, Lok N.; Krotkov, Nickolay A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2577-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2577-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2577-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

Research article

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28 Feb 2019

Research article |

| 28 Feb 2019

Satellite-derived emissions of carbon monoxide, ammonia, and nitrogen dioxide from the 2016 Horse River wildfire in the Fort McMurray area

Cristen Adams, Chris A. McLinden, Mark W. Shephard, Nolan Dickson, Enrico Dammers, Jack Chen, Paul Makar, Karen E. Cady-Pereira, Naomi Tam, Shailesh K. Kharol, Lok N. Lamsal, and Nickolay A. Krotkov

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Data sets

FORLI-CO and IASI-NNv2.1 NH3 IASI Team https://cds-espri.ipsl.upmc.fr

OMI/Aura Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Total and Tropospheric Column 1-orbit L2 Swath 13 x 24 km V003 N. A.Krotkov, L. N. Lamsal, S. V. Marchenko, E. A. Celarier, E. J. Bucsela, W. H. Swartz, and P. Veefkind https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/OMI/DATA2017

MODIS Active Fire Product MODIS team http://modis-fire.umd.edu/index.php

CALIPSO Vertical Feature Mask CALIPSO team http://www.icare.univ-lille1.fr/calipso

MISR Plume Height Project D. Nelson, S. Val, R. Kahn, E. Koeberlein, M. Tosca, D. Diner, and C. Lawshe https://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/getData/accessData/

CAMS GFAS Output GFAS team http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/

Airdata Warehouse Government of Alberta http://airdata.alberta.ca/

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We estimated how much carbon monoxide, ammonia, and nitrogen oxides were emitted in the smoke from the Fort McMurray Horse River wildfire using satellite data and air quality models. The fire emitted amounts of carbon monoxide that were similar to anthropogenic (human-caused) emissions for all of Alberta over a full year. We also estimated large amounts of ammonia and nitrogen oxides emitted from the fire. These results can be used to evaluate the performance of air quality forecasting models.