A trajectory modeling investigation of the biomass burning-tropical ozone relationship

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1994-04-01

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Pickering, Kenneth E., Anne M. Thompson, Donna P. Mcnamara, Mark R. Schoeberl, Leslie R. Lait, Paul A. Newman, Christopher O. Justice, and Jacqueline D. Kendall. “A Trajectory Modeling Investigation of the Biomass Burning-Tropical Ozone Relationship,” 1994. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19950004202.

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Environment Pollution

Abstract

The hypothesis that tropical total O₃ maxima seen by the TOMS satellite derive from African biomass burning has been tested using isentropic trajectory analyses with global meteorological data fields. Two case studies from the 1989 biomass burning season demonstrate that a large fraction of the air arriving at the location of TOMS O₃ maxima passed over regions of intense burning. Other trajectories initiated at a series of points over Africa and the Atlantic suggest flight strategies for field studies to be conducted in September 1992.