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The study presents the Fire Assimilation System (FAS) based on Level MODIS Collection 5 Active Fire Products. The FAS estimates the emission fluxes originated from the wild-land fires and provides this information to the atmospheric composition modelling system SILAM. Presently, the FAS incorporates the emission factors for three main land-use types (grass and agriculture, forest and mixed), which values were verified for several European episodes. Current work is a part of the FAS calibration for totally different geographical regions, Portugal and Australia, which nonetheless have several common environmental features.
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The study has been funded by the Academy of Finland, project IS4FIRES.
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Soares, J., Hakkarainen, J., Ermakova, T., Sofiev, M. (2011). On a Contribution of Wild-Land Fires on Atmospheric Composition in Arid Regions. In: Steyn, D., Trini Castelli, S. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXI. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1359-8_65
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