Characterisation of African biomass burning plumes and impacts on the atmospheric composition over the south-west Indian Ocean

Verreyken, Bert; Amelynck, Crist; Brioude, Jérôme; Müller, Jean-François; Schoon, Niels; Kumps, Nicolas; Colomb, Aurélie; Metzger, Jean-Marc; Lee, Christopher F.; Koenig, Theodore K.; Volkamer, Rainer; Stavrakou, Trissevgeni

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-14821-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-14821-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-14821-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 23

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02 Dec 2020

Research article |

| 02 Dec 2020

Characterisation of African biomass burning plumes and impacts on the atmospheric composition over the south-west Indian Ocean

Bert Verreyken, Crist Amelynck, Jérôme Brioude, Jean-François Müller, Niels Schoon, Nicolas Kumps, Aurélie Colomb, Jean-Marc Metzger, Christopher F. Lee, Theodore K. Koenig, Rainer Volkamer, and Trissevgeni Stavrakou

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RC1: 'Review of Characterisation of African biomass burning plumes and impacts on the at-mospheric composition over the South-West Indian Ocean', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Aug 2020
RC2: 'Review of the manuscript: Characterisation of African biomass burning plumes and impacts on the atmospheric composition over the South-West Indian Ocean, by Verreyken et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Sep 2020
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (18 Oct 2020) by Maria Kanakidou

Short summary

Biomass burning (BB) plumes arriving at the Maïdo observatory located in the south-west Indian Ocean during August 2018 and August 2019 are studied using trace gas measurements, Lagrangian transport models and the CAMS near-real-time atmospheric composition service. We investigate (i) secondary production of volatile organic compounds during transport, (ii) efficacy of the CAMS model to reproduce the chemical makeup of BB plumes and (iii) the impact of BB on the remote marine boundary layer.