@InProceedings{GevaerdFreiLong:2005:NuSiBi,
               author = "Gevaerd, R. and Freitas, Saulo and Longo, Karla",
          affiliation = "{} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais INPE/CPTEC} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais INPE/CPTEC}",
                title = "Numerical Simulation of Biomass Burning Emissions and 
                         Transportation during Roraima Fires",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2005",
         organization = "The LBA-ECO Science Team Meeting, 9.",
            publisher = "Nasa Official",
                 note = "The LBA-ECO Science Team Meeting for 2005 was held in at the 
                         Conference Center of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in 
                         S{\~a}o Paulo from November 10-12, immediately following the II 
                         Regional Conference on Global Change: South America, also held in 
                         S{\~a}o Paulo. The LBA Science Steering Committee also met in 
                         S{\~a}o Paulo shortly after this meeting on November 14-15.",
             keywords = "atmospheric, biomass burning, trace gases.",
             abstract = "We study the atmospheric transport of carbon monoxide from biomass 
                         burning that took place during the early months of 1998 in 
                         Roraima. Due the activity of the El Niņo atmospheric phenomenon, 
                         the vegetation fires occurred with a remarkable intensity. We 
                         focus on the role of deep convective systems on the 3d CO 
                         redistribution using the Eulerian approach for CO mixing ratio 
                         determination. The simulation is carried out using the system 
                         CATT-BRAMS (Coupled Aerosol and Tracer Transport model to the 
                         Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling 
                         System). In this method, the mass conservation equation is solved 
                         for carbon monoxide (CO) in-line with the atmospheric model 
                         equations. Source emissions of gases associated with biomass 
                         burning activities in are parameterized and introduced in the 
                         model. The daily burned area estimate is obtained through a 
                         normalization of the total burned area using the TOMS Aerosol 
                         Index. We also used a convective parameterization with training 
                         capability in order to improve the representation of the involving 
                         deep convective systems in the model. Model results are compared 
                         and validated with data collected during the LBA-CLAIRE-98 
                         campaign. The flight 8 over Suriname on March 26, detected at high 
                         altitudes (> 9km) a layer of air mass with chemical composition 
                         characteristic of aged biomass burning smoke over a clean air 
                         column. The numerical simulation was able to reproduce the 
                         observed CO profile and could explain the main transport 
                         mechanisms involved.",
  conference-location = "S{\~a}o Paulo",
      conference-year = "2005-11-10",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
             language = "en",
         organisation = "Nasa Oficial/LBA",
           targetfile = "PDF _Gevaerd3A-8.4.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "12 maio 2024"
}