ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-11-12169-2011 ACE-FTS measurements of trace species in the characterization of biomass burning plumes Tereszchuk K. A. 1 González Abad G. 1 4 Clerbaux C. 2 3 Hurtmans D. 3 Coheur P.-F. 3 Bernath P. F. 1 5 Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Université Versailles St-Quentin, CNRS/INSU, LATMOS-IPSL, Paris, France Spectroscopie de l'Atmosphère, Service de Chimie Quantique et de Photophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Brussels, Belgium Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529-0126, USA 07 12 2011 11 23 12169 12179 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/12169/2011/acp-11-12169-2011.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/12169/2011/acp-11-12169-2011.pdf

To further our understanding of the effects of biomass burning emissions on atmospheric composition, we report measurements of trace species in biomass burning plumes made by the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) instrument on the SCISAT-1 satellite. An extensive set of 15 molecules, C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>, C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub>, CH<sub>3</sub>OH, CH<sub>4</sub>, CO, H<sub>2</sub>CO, HCN, HCOOH, HNO<sub>3</sub>, NO, NO<sub>2</sub>, N<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub>, O<sub>3</sub>, OCS and SF<sub>6</sub> are used in our analysis. Even though most biomass burning smoke is typically confined to the boundary layer, some of these emissions are injected directly into the free troposphere via fire-related convective processes and transported away from the emission source. Further knowledge of the aging of biomass burning emissions in the free troposphere is needed. Tracer-tracer correlations are made between known pyrogenic species in these plumes in an effort to characterize them and follow their chemical evolution. Criteria such as age and type of biomass material burned are considered.

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