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How much CO was emitted by the 2010 fires around Moscow?

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The fires around Moscow in 2010 emitted a large amount of pollutants to the atmosphere. Here we estimate the carbon monoxide (CO) source strength of the Moscow fires in July and August by using the TM5-4DVAR system in combination with CO column observations of the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI). It is shown that the IASI observations provide a strong constraint on the total emissions needed in the model. Irrespective of the prior emissions used, the optimized CO fire emission estimates from mid-July to mid-August 2010 amount to approximately 24 Tg CO. This estimate depends only weakly on the assumed diurnal variations and injection height of the emissions. Our emission estimate of 22-27 Tg CO during roughly one month of intense burning is less than suggested by another recent study, but substantially larger than predicted by the bottom-up inventories. This latter discrepancy suggests that bottom-up emission estimates for extreme peat burning events require improvements.
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hal-00748738 , version 1 (21-10-2015)

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Maarten Krol, Wouters Peters, Pim Hooghiemstra, Maya George, Cathy Clerbaux, et al.. How much CO was emitted by the 2010 fires around Moscow?. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013, 13, pp.4737-4747. ⟨10.5194/acp-13-4737-2013⟩. ⟨hal-00748738⟩
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