Forest fire plumes over the North Atlantic: p-TOMCAT model simulations with aircraft and satellite measurements from the ITOP/ICARTT campaign

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Cook, Peter A ^a   Savage, Nicholas H ^a,b   Turquety, Solène ^c,d   Carver, Glenn D ^a   O'Connor, Fiona M ^a,b   Heckel, Andreas ^e   Stewart, David ^f   Whalley, Lisa K ^g   Parker, Alex E ^h   Schlager, Hans ⁱ   Singh, Hanwant B ^j   Avery, Melody A ^k   Sachse, Glen W ^k   Brune, William ^l   Richter, Andreas ^e   Burrows, John P ^e   Purvis, Ruth ^m   Lewis, Alastair C ⁿ   Reeves, Claire E ^f   Monks, Paul S ^h   Levine, James G ^a   Pyle, John A ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^j NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^k NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^l PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FIRES; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; THERMAL PLUMES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CARBON MONOXIDE; EMISSION INVENTORY; FOREST FIRE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SATELLITE DATA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34547556182     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007563     Document Type: Article

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