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Study of the factors determining anomalous variability of carbon dioxide total column amount over St. Petersburg

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Results of spectroscopic measurements of the carbon dioxide total column amount near St. Petersburg during forest fires in the period from August to September 2002 are analyzed. The HYSPLIT model is used to calculate air-mass trajectories and CO distribution on a mesoscale in this period. The HYSPLIT model simulations and measurements of carbon dioxide total column amount yield an estimate of the specific intensity of CO emission in a Pskov forest fire on August 28–September 8, 2002, equal to 0.17–0.26 kg m2. This estimate can be used for an estimation of the integral CO emission from fires in northwestern Russian forests and for model simulations of atmospheric CO concentration fields. The estimate of the CO emission from forest fires that is obtained from ground-based measurements can also be made on the basis of satellite measurements if they contain information on CO in the lower tropospheric layers (0 to 2 km).

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  1. St. Petersburg State University, ul. Ul’yanovskaya 1, Petrodvorets, St. Petersburg, 198504, Russia

    M. V. Makarova, V. S. Kostsov & A. V. Poberovskii

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Original Russian Text © M.V. Makarova, V.S. Kostsov, A.V. Poberovskii, 2007, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2007, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 538–546.

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Makarova, M.V., Kostsov, V.S. & Poberovskii, A.V. Study of the factors determining anomalous variability of carbon dioxide total column amount over St. Petersburg. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 43, 497–504 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433807040111

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