Characteristics of smoke emissions from biomass fires of the Amazon region - BASE-A experimentThe Biomass Burning Airborne and Spaceborne Experiment-Amazonia was designed for study of both aerosol and gaseous emissions from fires using an airborne sampling platform. The emission factors for combustion products from four fires suggest that the proportion of carbon released in the form of CO2 is higher than for fires of logging which has been burned in the western U.S. Combustion efficiency was of the order of 97 percent for the Amazonian test fire and 86-94 percent for deforestation fires. The inorganic content of particles from tropical fires are noted to be different from those of fires in the U.S.
Document ID
19920055049
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Ward, Darold E. (USDA, Forest Service, Missoula MT, United States)
Setzer, Alberto W. (Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil)
Kaufman, Yoram J. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Rasmussen, Rei A. (Oregon Graduate Center Beaverton, United States)