Airborne measurements of fire emission factors for African biomass burning sampled during the MOYA campaign

Barker, Patrick A.; Allen, Grant; Gallagher, Martin; Pitt, Joseph R.; Fisher, Rebecca E.; Bannan, Thomas; Nisbet, Euan G.; Bauguitte, Stéphane J.-B.; Pasternak, Dominika; Cliff, Samuel; Schimpf, Marina B.; Mehra, Archit; Bower, Keith N.; Lee, James D.; Coe, Hugh; Percival, Carl J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-15443-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-15443-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-15443-2020

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

Articles | Volume 20, issue 23

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11 Dec 2020

Research article |

| 11 Dec 2020

Airborne measurements of fire emission factors for African biomass burning sampled during the MOYA campaign

Patrick A. Barker, Grant Allen, Martin Gallagher, Joseph R. Pitt, Rebecca E. Fisher, Thomas Bannan, Euan G. Nisbet, Stéphane J.-B. Bauguitte, Dominika Pasternak, Samuel Cliff, Marina B. Schimpf, Archit Mehra, Keith N. Bower, James D. Lee, Hugh Coe, and Carl J. Percival

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Africa is estimated to account for approximately 52 % of global biomass burning (BB) carbon emissions. Despite this, there has been little previous in situ study of African BB emissions. This work presents BB emission factors for various atmospheric trace gases sampled from an aircraft in two distinct areas of Africa (Senegal and Uganda). Intracontinental variability in biomass burning methane emission is identified, which is attributed to difference in the specific fuel mixtures burnt.