Journal
ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
Volume 44, Issue 11, Pages 1469-1477Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.01.011
Keywords
Emissions; Climate change; Gases; Particles; Biomass burning; Burnt areas; Historical; Satellite
Funding
- Gestion et Impacts du Changement Climatique (GICC)
- LEFE/INSU
- CITYZEN European FP7
- ACCENT
- NCAR
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A new dataset of emissions of trace gases and particles resulting from biomass burning has been developed for the historical and the recent period (1900-2005). The purpose of this work is to provide a consistent gridded emissions dataset of atmospheric chemical species from 1900 to 2005 for chemistry-climate simulations. The inventory is built in two steps. First, fire emissions are estimated for the recent period (1997-2005) using satellite products (GBA2000 burnt areas and ATSR fire hotspots); the temporal and spatial distribution of the CO2 emissions for the 1997-2005 period is estimated through a calibration of ATSR fire hotspots. The historical inventory, covering the 1900-2000 period on a decadal basis, is derived from the historical reconstruction of burned areas from Mouillot and Field (2005). The historical emissions estimates are forced, for each main ecosystem, to agree with the recent inventory estimates, ensuring consistency between past and recent emissions. The methodology used for estimating the fire emissions is discussed, together with the time evolution of biomass burning emissions during the 20th century, first at the global scale and then for specific regions. The results are compared with the distributions provided by other inventories and results of inverse modeling studies. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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