HR: 1330h
AN: A22C-1080    [PDF]
TI: Correlating MOPITT CO Data With ATSR Fire Count Data
AU: * Liu, J
EM: jliu@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
AF: Department of Physics University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7 Canada
AU: Drummond, J
EM: jim@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
AF: Department of Physics University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7 Canada
AU: Nichitiu, F
EM: nichitiu@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
AF: Department of Physics University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7 Canada
AU: Zou, J
EM: jzou@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
AF: Department of Physics University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7 Canada
AB: Biomass burning has long been recognized as a major source of atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO). The MOPITT instrument (Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere) on board the Terra satellite is making global observations of CO and therefore provides a valuable dataset to assess CO emission from biomass burning at the global scale. In this study, we correlate MOPITT CO data with fire count data from the Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) on board the ERS-2 satellite. ATSR offers a surrogate for fire data and is one of a few global fire datasets available. As ATSR detects fires at night, nighttime CO is extracted and analyzed. For the first year operation of MOPITT from March 2000 to February 2001, CO emission from the biomass burning could be easily detected in many places around the world. Seasonal variations of CO emission from biomass burning for the different regions will be presented and the limitations of this analysis will be discussed.
DE: 0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting