@InProceedings{LongoFrei:2006:EsBiBu,
               author = "Longo, Karla Maria and Freitas, Saulo Ribeiro",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Estimation of biomass burning emissions on south America using 
                         field observations and remote sensing",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2006",
               editor = "Vera, Carolina and Nobre, Carlos",
                pages = "115--119",
         organization = "International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and 
                         Oceanography, 8. (ICSHMO).",
            publisher = "American Meteorological Society (AMS)",
              address = "45 Beacon Hill Road, Boston, MA, USA",
             keywords = "biomass burning, greenhouse gases, climate change, atmospheric 
                         chemistry.",
             abstract = "The high concentration of aerosol particles and trace gases 
                         observed in the Amazon and Central Brazilian atmosphere during the 
                         dry season is associated with intense anthropogenic biomass 
                         burning activity (vegetation fires). We describe an estimation 
                         technique of biomass burning emissions on South America based on 
                         the combination of three remote sensing fires products: GOES-8 
                         WF_ABBA, MODIS/GSFC and AVHRR/INPE and field observations. For 
                         each fire pixel detected, the mass of the emitted tracer is 
                         calculated trough field observations of fire related properties of 
                         the type of vegetation burning and by the instantaneous and/or 
                         average fire size. The sources are then spatially and temporally 
                         distributed and daily assimilated by the CATT-BRAMS (Coupled 
                         Aerosol and Tracer Transport model to the Brazilian developments 
                         on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System) which prognoses 
                         tracer concentrations. CATT-BRAMS is an on-line Eulerian transport 
                         model fully consistent with the simulated atmospheric dynamics. 
                         Two others biomass burning inventories (EDGAR and TOMS AI derived) 
                         are also used and a comparison between the three estimations is 
                         performed. Comparison between model results and MODIS, MOPITT, 
                         AIRS products and local observations are also showed and point out 
                         some improvements on the estimation by this described technique.",
  conference-location = "Foz do Igua{\c{c}}u",
      conference-year = "24-28 Apr. 2006",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
             language = "en",
         organisation = "American Meteorological Society (AMS)",
                  ibi = "cptec.inpe.br/adm_conf/2005/10.31.17.37",
                  url = "http://urlib.net/ibi/cptec.inpe.br/adm_conf/2005/10.31.17.37",
           targetfile = "115-120.pdf",
                 type = "Atmospheric chemistry in the SH",
        urlaccessdate = "25 abr. 2024"
}