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    Exploring CO pollution episodes observed at Rishiri Island by chemical weather simulations and AIRS satellite measurements: long-range transport of burning plumes and implications for emissions inventories

    Authors:

    Hiroshi Tanimoto ,

    Asian Environment Research Group, National Institute for Environmental Studies; Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, JP; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, US
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    Keiichi Sato,

    Asian Environment Research Group, National Institute for Environmental Studies, JP
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    Tim Butler,

    Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, DE
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    Mark G. Lawrence,

    Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, DE
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    Jenny A. Fisher,

    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, US
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    Monika Kopacz,

    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, US
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    Robert M. Yantosca,

    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, US
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    Yugo Kanaya,

    Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, JP
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    Shungo Kato,

    Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, JP
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    Tomoaki Okuda,

    Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, JP
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    Shigeru Tanaka,

    Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, JP
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    Jiye Zeng

    Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies; Asian Environment Research Group, National Institute for Environmental Studies, JP
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    Abstract

    The summer of 2003 was an active forest fire season in Siberia. Several events of elevated carbon monoxide (CO) were observed at Rishiri Island in northern Japan during an intensive field campaign in September 2003. A simulation with a global chemistry-transport model is able to reproduce the general features of the baseline levels and variability in the observed CO, and a source attribution for CO in the model suggests that the contribution from North Asia dominated, accounting for approximately 50% on average, with contributions of 7% from North America and 8% from Europe and 30% from oxidation of hydrocarbons. With consideration of recent emission estimates for East Asian fossil fuel and Siberian biomass burning sources, the model captures the timing and magnitude of the CO enhancements in two pollution episodes well (17 and 24 September). However, it significantly underestimates the amplitude during another episode (11–13 September), requiring additional CO emissions for this event. Daily satellite images from AIRS reveal CO plumes transported from western Siberia toward northern Japan. These results suggest that CO emissions from biomass burning in western Siberia in 2003 are likely underestimated in the inventory and further highlight large uncertainties in estimating trace gas emissions from boreal fires.

    How to Cite: Tanimoto, H., Sato, K., Butler, T., Lawrence, M.G., Fisher, J.A., Kopacz, M., Yantosca, R.M., Kanaya, Y., Kato, S., Okuda, T., Tanaka, S. and Zeng, J., 2009. Exploring CO pollution episodes observed at Rishiri Island by chemical weather simulations and AIRS satellite measurements: long-range transport of burning plumes and implications for emissions inventories. Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 61(2), pp.394–407. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00407.x
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     Accepted on 24 Oct 2008            Submitted on 16 May 2008

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