Building the Fire Energetics and Emissions Research (FEER) Smoke Emissions Inventory Version 1.0

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Ellison, Luke, Charles Ichoku, Feng Zhang, and Jun Wang. “Building the Fire Energetics and Emissions Research (FEER) Smoke Emissions Inventory Version 1.0.” April 29, 2014. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20140012661.

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Abstract

The Fire Energetics and Emissions Research (FEER) group's new coefficient of emission global gridded product at 1x1 resolution that directly relates fire readiative energy (FRE) to smoke aerosol release, FEERv1.0 Ce, made its public debut in August 2013. Since then, steps have been taken to generate corresponding maps and totals of total particulate matter (PM) emissions using different sources of FRE, and subsequently to simulate the resulting PM₂.₅ in the WRF-Chem 3.5 model using emission rates from FEERv1.0 as well as other standard biomass burning emission inventories. An flowchart of the FEER algorithm to calculate Ce is outlined here along with a display of the resulting emissions of total PM globally and also regionally. The modeling results from the WRF-Chem3.5 simulations are also shown.