Biomass burning emission estimates inferred from satellite column measurements of HCHO: Sensitivity to co-emitted aerosol and injection height

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Gonzi, Siegfried ^a   Palmer, Paul I ^a   Barkley, Michael P ^b   De Smedt, Isabelle ^c   Van Roozendael, Michel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED GAS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AEROSOL SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; BIOGENIC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS; CHEMICAL MECHANISM; COLUMN MEASUREMENTS; EMISSION UNCERTAINTIES; GASPHASE; HETEROGENEOUS CHEMISTRY; INDONESIA; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OFFLINE; REGIONAL BIOMASS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPACE-BASED; SPACE-BORNE; SUMMER MONTHS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VERTICAL MIXING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS BURNING; BOUNDARY LAYER; EMISSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORMALDEHYDE; HEIGHT; HETEROGENEITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VERTICAL MIXING; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ASIA; CANADA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 79960824668     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047890     Document Type: Article

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