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@ARTICLE{Kaiser:20055,
author = {Kaiser, J.W. and Heil, A. and Andreae, M.O. and Benedetti,
A. and Chubarova, N. and Jones, L. and Morcrette, J.-J. and
Razinger, M. and Schultz, M.G. and Suttie, M. and van der
Werf, G.R.},
title = {{B}iomass burning emissions estimated with a global fire
assimilation system based on observed fire radiative power},
journal = {Biogeosciences},
volume = {9},
issn = {1726-4170},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau [u.a.]},
publisher = {Copernicus},
reportid = {PreJuSER-20055},
pages = {527 - 554},
year = {2012},
note = {We thank Hugo Dernier van der Gon, Zig Klimont, Stefan
Kinne for valuable discussions and Mikhail A. Sviridenkov
for AERONET AOD observations from Zvenigorod. We thank NASA
for providing the MODIS data, and the AERONET PIs and their
staff for establishing and maintaining the sites in Minsk,
$Bucharest_Inoe$ and Sevastopol. This research was supported
by the EU Seventh Research Framework Programme (MACC
project, contract number 218793).},
abstract = {The Global Fire Assimilation System (GFASv1.0) calculates
biomass burning emissions by assimilating Fire Radiative
Power (FRP) observations from the MODIS instruments onboard
the Terra and Aqua satellites. It corrects for gaps in the
observations, which are mostly due to cloud cover, and
filters spurious FRP observations of volcanoes, gas flares
and other industrial activity. The combustion rate is
subsequently calculated with land cover-specific conversion
factors. Emission factors for 40 gas-phase and aerosol trace
species have been compiled from a literature survey. The
corresponding daily emissions have been calculated on a
global 0.5 degrees x 0.5 degrees grid from 2003 to the
present. General consistency with the Global Fire Emission
Database version 3.1 (GFED3.1) within its accuracy is
achieved while maintaining the advantages of an FRP-based
approach: GFASv1.0 makes use of the quantitative information
on the combustion rate that is contained in the FRP
observations, and it detects fires in real time at high
spatial and temporal resolution. GFASv1.0 indicates omission
errors in GFED3.1 due to undetected small fires. It also
exhibits slightly longer fire seasons in South America and
North Africa and a slightly shorter fire season in Southeast
Asia. GFASv1.0 has already been used for atmospheric
reactive gas simulations in an independent study, which
found good agreement with atmospheric observations. We have
performed simulations of the atmospheric aerosol
distribution with and without the assimilation of MODIS
aerosol optical depth (AOD). They indicate that the
emissions of particulate matter need to be boosted by a
factor of 2-4 to reproduce the global distribution of
organic matter and black carbon. This discrepancy is also
evident in the comparison of previously published top-down
and bottom-up estimates. For the time being, a global
enhancement of the particulate matter emissions by 3.4 is
recommended. Validation with independent AOD and PM10
observations recorded during the Russian fires in summer
2010 show that the global Monitoring Atmospheric Composition
and Change (MACC) aerosol model with GFASv1.0 aerosol
emissions captures the smoke plume evolution well when
organic matter and black carbon are enhanced by the
recommended factor. In conjunction with the assimilation of
MODIS AOD, the use of GFASv1.0 with enhanced emission
factors quantitatively improves the forecast of the aerosol
load near the surface sufficiently to allow air quality
warnings with a lead time of up to four days.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IEK-8},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima / MACC - Monitoring Atmospheric
Composition and Climate (218793)},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK491 / G:(EU-Grant)218793},
shelfmark = {Ecology / Geosciences, Multidisciplinary},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000300229000035},
doi = {10.5194/bg-9-527-2012},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/20055},
}