Long-term brown carbon and smoke tracer observations in Bogotá, Colombia: association with medium-range transport of biomass burning plumes

Rincón-Riveros, Juan Manuel; Rincón-Caro, Maria Alejandra; Sullivan, Amy P.; Mendez-Espinosa, Juan Felipe; Belalcazar, Luis Carlos; Quirama Aguilar, Miguel; Morales Betancourt, Ricardo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7459-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7459-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7459-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 12

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26 Jun 2020

Research article |

| 26 Jun 2020

Long-term brown carbon and smoke tracer observations in Bogotá, Colombia: association with medium-range transport of biomass burning plumes

Juan Manuel Rincón-Riveros, Maria Alejandra Rincón-Caro, Amy P. Sullivan, Juan Felipe Mendez-Espinosa, Luis Carlos Belalcazar, Miguel Quirama Aguilar, and Ricardo Morales Betancourt

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RC1: 'Comments on Juan Manuel Rincón-Riveros et al. 2019 ACPD', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Jan 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', Ricardo Morales, 09 Apr 2020
- AC4: 'Detailed Response to all reviewers.', Ricardo Morales, 09 Apr 2020
RC2: 'Review of “Long-term Brown Carbon …” by Rincón-Riveros et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 05 Feb 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #3', Ricardo Morales, 09 Apr 2020
- AC4: 'Detailed Response to all reviewers.', Ricardo Morales, 09 Apr 2020
RC3: 'Distant Smoke and Bogota air quality', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Feb 2020
- AC3: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2', Ricardo Morales, 09 Apr 2020
- AC4: 'Detailed Response to all reviewers.', Ricardo Morales, 09 Apr 2020
AC4: 'Detailed Response to all reviewers.', Ricardo Morales, 09 Apr 2020

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AR by Ricardo Morales on behalf of the Authors (01 May 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (13 May 2020) by Manish Shrivastava

AR by Ricardo Morales on behalf of the Authors (22 May 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (04 Jun 2020) by Manish Shrivastava

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Air pollution affects health for millions of people worldwide. This is particularly worrisome for citizens in emerging economies where air quality is often heavily deteriorated. We show how, every year, agricultural burns and forest fires in the grasslands of northern South America increase the concentration of harmful particles in the environment, further worsening air quality for nearly 60 million in this region, even when the fires occur hundreds of kilometers away from urban areas.