Trace gas measurements in nascent, aged, and cloud-processed smoke from African savanna fires by airborne Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (AFTIR)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 13, 2003, Pages

  Yokelson, Robert J ^a   Bertschi, Isaac T ^a   Christian, Ted J ^a   Hobbs, Peter V ^b   Ward, Darol E ^c   Hao, Wei Min ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; Cloud chemistry; HCN; Oxygenated organic compounds; Photochemistry; Savanna fires

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; BIOMASS BURNING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SAVANNA;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 0012773098     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd002322     Document Type: Article

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