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Impacts of Biomass Burning Emissions on Tropospheric NO2 Vertical Column Density over Continental Southeast Asia

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Land-Atmospheric Research Applications in South and Southeast Asia

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The behavior of tropospheric NO2 vertical column density (VCD) over continental Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam) was systematically analyzed using observations from the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) and a regional chemical transport model (CTM) during 2003–2008. NO2 VCD over continental Southeast Asia showed a distinctive large peak from winter (December) to early spring (April). The regional CTM was configured with anthropogenic emissions taken from the Regional Emission inventory in Asia (REAS) version 2.1 and biomass burning emissions taken from the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) version 3.1. Overall, the model could reproduce the NO2 VCD observed by space-borne sensors. A mismatch between satellite observations and the regional CTM was found only in January over Cambodia. A likely reason for this mismatch was diurnal variation in biomass burning emissions. During the analysis period, the largest biomass burning event was reported from December 2003 to April 2004, and a sensitivity analysis was conducted by omitting the biomass burning emissions in the CTM. It was found that the seasonal variations of NO2 VCD, with the peak during winter to early spring, were caused by biomass burning emissions in all countries in continental Southeast Asia. The contribution of biomass burning emissions to NO2 VCD over continental Southeast Asia was an average of 28% during this period and a maximum of 58% in March 2004.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Krishna P. Vadrevu, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA, for inviting us to contribute this article. We acknowledge the free use of tropospheric NO2 column data from the SCIAMACHY sensor (www.temis.nl). This work was partly supported by the Global Environment Research Fund (No. S-12) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan.

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  1. Environmental Science Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, 1646 Abiko, Abiko, Chiba, 270-1194, Japan

    Syuichi Itahashi

  2. Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga Park, Kasuga, Fukuoka, 816-8580, Japan

    Itsushi Uno

  3. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoicho, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan

    Hitoshi Irie

  4. Asia Center for Air Pollution Research, 1182 Sowa, Nishi-Ku, Niigata, 950-2144, Japan

    Jun-Ichi Kurokawa

  5. National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan

    Toshimasa Ohara

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Itahashi, S., Uno, I., Irie, H., Kurokawa, JI., Ohara, T. (2018). Impacts of Biomass Burning Emissions on Tropospheric NO2 Vertical Column Density over Continental Southeast Asia. In: Vadrevu, K., Ohara, T., Justice, C. (eds) Land-Atmospheric Research Applications in South and Southeast Asia. Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67474-2_4

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