Anthropogenic and Biomass Burning Aerosols Observed from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Abstract
Aerosol measurements during the summer of 2007 from the Dalhousie Raman Lidar located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, are presented and analyzed. Observations of plumes from biomass burning across North America are revealed in addition to anthropogenic pollution events originating from the populated East. Satellite measurements from MODIS and CALIPSO are used to determine the horizonal extent of the events, and also to identify biomass burning hot spots. The data are interpreted using simulations from the GEOS-Chem Chemical Transport Model, and the HYSPLIT and FLEXPART particle trajectory models.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- Bibcode:
- 2008AGUFM.A23A0268D
- Keywords:
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- 0305 Aerosols and particles (0345;
- 4801;
- 4906);
- 0368 Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry;
- 3360 Remote sensing