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The influence of boreal biomass burning emissions on the distribution of tropospheric ozone over North America and the North Atlantic during 2010

Parrington

¹ Palmer

P. I.

¹ Henze

D. K.

² Tarasick

D. W.

³ Hyer

E. J.

⁴ Owen

R. C.

⁵ Helmig

⁶ Clerbaux

⁷ Bowman

K. W.

⁸ Deeter

M. N.

⁹ Barratt

E. M.

¹ Coheur

P.-F.

¹⁰ Hurtmans

¹⁰ Jiang

¹¹ George

⁷ Worden

J. R.

⁸

School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Air Quality Research Division, Environment Canada, Downsview, Ontario, Canada

Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, California, USA

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

UPMC Univ. Paris 06; Université Versailles St.-Quentin; CNRS/INSU, LATMOS-IPSL, Paris, France

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Spectroscopie de l'Atmosphère, Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

21 02 2012

12 4 2077 2098

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We have analysed the sensitivity of the tropospheric ozone distribution over North America and the North Atlantic to boreal biomass burning emissions during the summer of 2010 using the GEOS-Chem 3-D global tropospheric chemical transport model and observations from in situ and satellite instruments. We show that the model ozone distribution is consistent with observations from the Pico Mountain Observatory in the Azores, ozonesondes across Canada, and the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) and Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Instrument (IASI) satellite instruments. Mean biases between the model and observed ozone mixing ratio in the free troposphere were less than 10 ppbv. We used the adjoint of GEOS-Chem to show the model ozone distribution in the free troposphere over Maritime Canada is largely sensitive to NOx emissions from biomass burning sources in Central Canada, lightning sources in the central US, and anthropogenic sources in the eastern US and south-eastern Canada. We also used the adjoint of GEOS-Chem to evaluate the Fire Locating And Monitoring of Burning Emissions (FLAMBE) inventory through assimilation of CO observations from the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite instrument. The CO inversion showed that, on average, the FLAMBE emissions needed to be reduced to 89% of their original values, with scaling factors ranging from 12% to 102%, to fit the MOPITT observations in the boreal regions. Applying the CO scaling factors to all species emitted from boreal biomass burning sources led to a decrease of the model tropospheric distributions of CO, PAN, and NOx by as much as −20 ppbv, −50 pptv, and −20 pptv respectively. The modification of the biomass burning emission estimates reduced the model ozone distribution by approximately −3 ppbv (−8%) and on average improved the agreement of the model ozone distribution compared to the observations throughout the free troposphere, reducing the mean model bias from 5.5 to 4.0 ppbv for the Pico Mountain Observatory, 3.0 to 0.9 ppbv for ozonesondes, 2.0 to 0.9 ppbv for TES, and 2.8 to 1.4 ppbv for IASI.

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