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AN: B41C-01    [Abstracts]
TI: Transboundary air Pollution in Peruvian Amazonia
AU: * Luis, S
EM: doctorozono@yahoo.com
AF: Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Research Institute for Technological Development, ININDETEC, Jr. Julio C. Tello 246 El Tambo, Huancayo, Jun 064, Peru
AU: Luis, C
EM: inindetec@yahoo.com
AF: Air Quality Research and Management Group, National University of the Center of Peru, Calle Real 160, Huancayo, Jun 064, Peru
AB: Biomass burning in the tropics is an important source of pollution to the atmosphere with different and not well understood consequences to the climate and the atmospheric chemistry. Burning over Amazonia is related mainly to land use cover change. During the dry season (May to November) high amount of fires are produced in Amazonia. The resulting pollutants under some conditions could produce tropospheric ozone, which reaches long distances far from the sources, the same occurs with aerosols, both could be detected by ground and satellite measurements. The work focused on the transboundary air pollution between Brazil and Peru during the last years. In this sense, this research determines the seasonal variations and the spatial coverage of this pollution in Peruvian Amazonia. We used satellite data and ground measurements to make a detailed evaluation of the transport and production of pollutants (tropospheric ozone and aerosols) related to biomass burning in order to quantify the levels of pollution based on tropospheric ozone and aerosol index and optical depth. Also, we evaluate the climatology of fires detected by satellites. It is expected that the results will provide basic information to policy makers about possible effects of this pollution in the natural resources of Peru. Also, we will provide the scientific basis for the National Program for Prevention of Forest Fires.
DE: 0305 Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801, 4906)
DE: 0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry
DE: 0478 Pollution: urban, regional and global (0345, 4251)
DE: 0480 Remote sensing
DE: 0490 Trace gases
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly