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Title:
Southern Hemisphere carbon monoxide interannual variability observed by Terra/Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT)
Authors:
Edwards, D. P.; Pétron, G.; Novelli, P. C.; Emmons, L. K.; Gille, J. C.; Drummond, J. R.
Affiliation:
AA(National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA); AB(Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado, USA); AC(Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado, USA); AD(National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA); AE(National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA); AF(Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Publication:
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 111, Issue D16, CiteID D16303 (JGRD Homepage)
Publication Date:
08/2006
Origin:
AGU
AGU Keywords:
Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Troposphere: composition and chemistry, Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry, Atmospheric Processes: Remote sensing
Abstract Copyright:
(c) 2006: American Geophysical Union
DOI:
10.1029/2006JD007079
Bibliographic Code:
2006JGRD..11116303E

Abstract

Biomass burning is an annual occurrence in the tropical Southern Hemisphere (SH) and represents a major source of regional pollution. Vegetation fires emit carbon monoxide (CO), which because of its medium lifetime is an excellent tracer of tropospheric transport. CO is also one of the few tropospheric trace gases currently observed from satellite, and this provides long-term global measurements. In this paper, we use the 5-year CO data record from the Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument to examine the interannual variability of the SH CO loading and show how this relates to climate conditions which determine the intensity of fire sources. The MOPITT observations show an annual austral springtime peak in the SH zonal CO loading each year with dry season biomass burning emissions in South America, southern Africa, the maritime continent, and northwestern Australia. Although fires in southern Africa and South America typically produce the greatest amount of CO, the most significant interannual variation is due to varying fire activity and emissions from the maritime continent and northern Australia. We find that this variation in turn correlates well with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation precipitation index. Between 2000 and 2005, emissions were greatest in late 2002, and an inverse modeling of the MOPITT data using the Model of Ozone Research in the Troposphere (MOZART) chemical transport model estimates the Southeast Asia regional fire source for the year August 2002 to September 2003 to be 52 Tg CO. Comparison of the MOPITT retrievals and NOAA surface network measurements indicate that the latter do not fully capture the interannual variability or the seasonal range of the CO zonal average concentration because of biases associated with atmospheric and geographic sampling.
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