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Influx of African biomass burning aerosol during the Amazonian dry season through layered transatlantic transport of black carbon-rich smoke
Bruna A. Holanda
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 05508-090, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Mira L. Pöhlker
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
David Walter
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, 07701 Jena, Germany
Jorge Saturno
Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
now at: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Matthias Sörgel
Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Jeannine Ditas
Institute for Environmental and Climate Research (ECI), Jinan University, Guangzhou, 511443, China
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Florian Ditas
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
now at: Hessisches Landesamt für Naturschutz, Umwelt und Geologie, 65203 Wiesbaden, Germany
Christiane Schulz
Experimental Aerosol and Cloud Microphysics Department, TROPOS, Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Particle Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Marco Aurélio Franco
Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 05508-090, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Qiaoqiao Wang
Institute for Environmental and Climate Research (ECI), Jinan University, Guangzhou, 511443, China
Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Tobias Donth
Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Paulo Artaxo
Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 05508-090, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Henrique M. J. Barbosa
Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 05508-090, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Stephan Borrmann
Particle Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Institute for Physics of the Atmosphere, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Ramon Braga
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Joel Brito
Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 05508-090, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
now at: IMT Lille Douai, Univ. Lille, SAGE, 59000 Lille, France
Yafang Cheng
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Maximilian Dollner
University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Institute for Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Johannes W. Kaiser
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
now at: Deutscher Wetterdienst, 63067 Offenbach, Germany
Thomas Klimach
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Christoph Knote
Meteorological Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
Ovid O. Krüger
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Daniel Fütterer
Institute for Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Jošt V. Lavrič
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, 07701 Jena, Germany
Nan Ma
Institute for Environmental and Climate Research (ECI), Jinan University, Guangzhou, 511443, China
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Luiz A. T. Machado
National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José Dos Campos, Brazil
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Jing Ming
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Fernando G. Morais
Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 05508-090, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Hauke Paulsen
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Daniel Sauer
Institute for Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Hans Schlager
Institute for Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Johannes Schneider
Particle Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Bernadett Weinzierl
University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Institute for Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Adrian Walser
University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Institute for Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Meteorological Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
Manfred Wendisch
Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Helmut Ziereis
Institute for Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Martin Zöger
Flight experiments, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Ulrich Pöschl
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Meinrat O. Andreae
Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Biomass burning smoke from African savanna and grassland is transported across the South Atlantic Ocean in defined layers within the free troposphere. The combination of in situ aircraft and ground-based measurements aided by satellite observations showed that these layers are transported into the Amazon Basin during the early dry season. The influx of aged smoke, enriched in black carbon and cloud condensation nuclei, has important implications for the Amazonian aerosol and cloud cycling.
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