Trace gas and particle emissions from open biomass burning in Mexico

Airborne measurements of trace gas and aerosol particle emissions from biomass burning in Amazonia

As part of the LBA-SMOCC (Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia – Smoke, Aerosols, Clouds, Rainfall, and Climate) 2002 campaign, we studied the emission of carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), and aerosol particles from Amazonian deforestation fires using an instrumented aircraft. Emission ratios for aerosol number (CN) relative to CO (ERCN/CO) fell in the range 14–32 c...

Trace gas and particle emissions in central Mexico

Trace gas and particle emissions from domestic and industrial biofuel use and garbage burning in central Mexico T. J. Christian, R. J. Yokelson, B. Cárdenas, L. T. Molina, G. Engling, and S.-C. Hsu University of Montana, Dept. of Chemistry, Missoula, MT, USA National Center for Environmental Research and Training, National Institute of Ecology/SEMARNAT, Mexico, DF, Mexico Dept. of Earth, Atmosp...

Carbon Emissions from Biomass Burning

Mercury emissions from biomass burning in China.

Biomass burning covers open fires (forest and grassland fires, crop residue burning in fields, etc.) and biofuel combustion (crop residues and wood, etc., used as fuel). As a large agricultural country, China may produce large quantities of mercury emissions from biomass burning. A new mercury emission inventory in China is needed because previous studies reflected outdated biomass burning with...

Emissions from Biomass Burning in the Yucatan

In March 2006 two instrumented aircraft made the first detailed field measurements of biomass burning (BB) emissions in the Northern Hemisphere tropics as part of the MILAGRO project. The aircraft were the National Center for Atmospheric Research C-130 and a University of Montana/US Forest Service Twin Otter. The initial emissions of up to 49 trace gas or particle species were measured from 20 ...