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2007

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The Tropical Forest And Fire Emissions Experiment: Trace Gases Emitted By Smoldering Logs And Dung From Deforestation And Pasture Fires In Brazil, Ted J. Christian, Robert J. Yokelson, Joao A. Carvahlo, David W. Griffith, Ernesto C. Alvarado, Jose C. Santos, Turibio Gomes Soares Neto, Carlos A. Gurgel Veras, Wei Min Hao Jan 2007

The Tropical Forest And Fire Emissions Experiment: Trace Gases Emitted By Smoldering Logs And Dung From Deforestation And Pasture Fires In Brazil, Ted J. Christian, Robert J. Yokelson, Joao A. Carvahlo, David W. Griffith, Ernesto C. Alvarado, Jose C. Santos, Turibio Gomes Soares Neto, Carlos A. Gurgel Veras, Wei Min Hao

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Earlier work showed that Amazonian biomass burning produces both lofted and initially unlofted emissions in large amounts. A mobile, Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) measured the unlofted emissions of 17 trace gases from residual smoldering combustion (RSC) of logs as part of the Tropical Forest and Fire Emissions Experiment (TROFFEE) during the 2004 Amazonian dry season. The RSC emissions were highly variable and the few earlier RSC measurements lay near the high end of combustion efficiency observed in this study. Fuel consumption by RSC was ∼5% of total for a planned deforestation fire. Much regional RSC probably occurs in the …


The Tropical Forest And Fire Emissions Experiment: Overview And Airborne Fire Emission Factor Measurements, Robert Yokelson, Thomas Karl, P Artaxo, D Blake, Theodore Christian, David W. Griffith, A Guenther, W M Hao Jan 2007

The Tropical Forest And Fire Emissions Experiment: Overview And Airborne Fire Emission Factor Measurements, Robert Yokelson, Thomas Karl, P Artaxo, D Blake, Theodore Christian, David W. Griffith, A Guenther, W M Hao

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

The Tropical Forest and Fire Emissions Experiment (TROFFEE) used laboratory measurements followed by airborne and ground based field campaigns during the 2004 Amazon dry season to quantify the emissions from pristine tropical forest and several plantations as well as the emissions, fuel consumption, and fire ecology of tropical deforestation fires. The airborne campaign used an Embraer 110B aircraft outfitted with whole air sampling in canisters, mass-calibrated nephelometry, ozone by UV absorbance, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and proton-transfer mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) to measure PM10, O3, CO2, CO, NO, NO2, HONO, HCN, NH3, OCS, DMS, CH4, and up to 48 non-methane …