Tropical Tropospheric Ozone and Biomass Burning

Author:

Thompson Anne M.12,Witte Jacquelyn C.13,Hudson Robert D.2,Guo Hua4,Herman Jay R.1,Fujiwara Masatomo5

Affiliation:

1. NASA–Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 916, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.

2. Department of Meteorology and

3. Science Systems and Applications, Lanham, MD 20706, USA;

4. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA;

5. Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.

Abstract

New methods for retrieving tropospheric ozone column depth and absorbing aerosol (smoke and dust) from the Earth Probe–Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (EP/TOMS) are used to follow pollution and to determine interannual variability and trends. During intense fires over Indonesia (August to November 1997), ozone plumes, decoupled from the smoke below, extended as far as India. This ozone overlay a regional ozone increase triggered by atmospheric responses to the El Niño and Indian Ocean Dipole. Tropospheric ozone and smoke aerosol measurements from the Nimbus 7 TOMS instrument show El Niño signals but no tropospheric ozone trend in the 1980s. Offsets between smoke and ozone seasonal maxima point to multiple factors determining tropical tropospheric ozone variability.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Reference47 articles.

1. Smoke is detected from a number of satellite sensors e.g. AVHRR (Advanced Very-High Resolution Radiometer) GOES (Geostationary Observations over Earth Sensor) SeaWIFS (Sea Wide-Field of View Spectrometer) TOMS and MODIS (Moderate High-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer). Fires are detected from some satellites. See fire counts from Along-Trace Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) at . In the present study a generally good colocation of TOMS smoke aerosol and ATSR fires in August to October 1997 allows use of TOMS aerosol as a proxy for burning activity. Fishman and Brackett (2) give 2- to 3-month-averaged tropospheric ozone obtained by subtraction of the SAGE (Stratospheric Aerosols and Gases Experiment) satellite instrument stratospheric column ozone from TOMS total ozone. Attempts to extract daily tropospheric ozone by subtracting solar backscatter ultraviolet stratospheric column ozone from TOMS may give erroneous results (3).

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