Articles | Volume 23, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2089-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2089-2023
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10 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 10 Feb 2023

Biomass burning CO, PM and fuel consumption per unit burned area estimates derived across Africa using geostationary SEVIRI fire radiative power and Sentinel-5P CO data

Hannah M. Nguyen, Jiangping He, and Martin J. Wooster

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This work presents novel advances in the estimation of open biomass burning emissions via the first fully "top-down" approach to exploit satellite-derived observations of fire radiative power and carbon monoxide over Africa. We produce a 16-year record of fire-generated CO emissions and dry matter consumed per unit area for Africa and evaluate these emissions estimates through their use in an atmospheric model, whose simulation output is then compared to independent satellite observations of CO.
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