A multi-decadal history of biomass burning plume heights identified using aerosol index measurements

作者：Guan H^*; Esswein R; Lopez J; Bergstrom R; Warnock A; Follette Cook M; Fromm M; Iraci L T

来源：Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2010, 10(14): 6461-6469.

DOI：10.5194/acp-10-6461-2010

We have quantified the relationship between Aerosol Index (AI) measurements and plume height for young biomass burning plumes using coincident Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) measurements. This linear relationship allows the determination of high-altitude plumes wherever AI data are available, and it provides a data set for validating global fire plume heights in chemistry transport models. We find that all plumes detected from June 2006 to February 2009 with an AI value >= 9 are located at altitudes higher than 5 km. Older high-altitude plumes have lower AI values than young plumes at similar altitudes. We have examined available AI data from the OMI and TOMS instruments (1978-2009) and find that large AI plumes occur more frequently over North America than over Australia or Russia/Northeast Asia. According to the derived relationship, during this time interval, 181 plumes, in various stages of their evolution, reached altitudes above 8 km.

• 出版日期2010