The impact of uncertainties in African biomass burning emission estimates on modeling global air quality, long range transport and tropospheric chemical lifetimes

Atmosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 132-163

  Williams, Jason E ^a   van Weele, Michiel ^a   van Velthoven, Peter F J ^a   Scheele, Marinus P ^a   Liousse, Catherine ^b   van der Werf, Guido R ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

African biomass burning; Air quality; Emission inventories; Long range transport; Methane lifetimes

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BIOMASS; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GAS EMISSIONS; METHANE; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ANNUAL GROWTH RATE; BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS; BIOMASS-BURNING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMISTRY TRANSPORT MODEL; EMISSION INVENTORIES; FREE TROPOSPHERE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MIXING RATIOS; NOX EMISSIONS; OXIDATIVE CAPACITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERIC CO; TROPOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EMISSION INVENTORY; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; METHANE; MODELING; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AFRICA;

EID: 84861350355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos3010132     Document Type: Article

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