Inventory of boreal fire emissions for North America in 2004: Importance of peat burning and pyroconvective injection

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Turquety, Solène ^a,b   Logan, Jennifer A ^a   Jacob, Daniel J ^a   Hudman, Rynda C ^a   Leung, Fok Yan ^a   Heald, Colette L ^a,c   Yantosca, Robert M ^a   Wu, Shiliang ^a   Emmons, Louisa K ^d   Edwards, David P ^d   Sachse, Glen W ^e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FIRES; FUEL CONSUMPTION; GAS EMISSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE;

BURNING; CARBON MONOXIDE; EMISSION INVENTORY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODIS; PEAT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; TROPOSPHERE;

ALASKA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547401034     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007281     Document Type: Article

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