Satellite remote sensing of boreal forest fires over northeast Asia during May 2003

Kwon Ho Lee; Jeong Eun Kim; Young Joon Kim; Jhoon Kim; Wolfgang Von Hoyningen-Huene

doi:10.1117/12.580775

Satellite remote sensing of boreal forest fires over northeast Asia during May 2003

Kwon Ho Lee, Jeong Eun Kim, Young Joon Kim, Jhoon Kim, Wolfgang Von Hoyningen-Huene

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Massive smoke plume from forest fires reduced visibility on regional scale in Northeast Asia in May 2003 during boreal forest fire season in Siberia. Smoke aerosol events and their effects are investigated using satellite data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer (MODIS), Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT), Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES), and Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) over Northeast Asia. Extensive forest fires were detected from MODIS fire product (MOD14) data over Siberia. Aerosol optical thickness (AOT) of the smoke aerosol from fires can be retrieved from the MODIS Level 1 data by using the Bremen Aerosol Retrieval (BAER) algorithm. The retrieved mean AOT ranged from 2 to 4 over smoke plume covering Northeast Asia. Over most of the Northeast Asia, CO concentrations was about 3.0 molecules/cm² in this region. The top-of-atmosphere (TOA) shortwave aerosol radiative forcing (SWARF) from CERES has been estimated. The mean TOA SWARF was about 130-290 W/m² over smoke aerosol plume, indicating an aerosol cooling effect.

Original language	English
Article number	57
Pages (from-to)	270-278
Number of pages	9
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5652
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.580775
Publication status	Published - 2004
Event	Passive Optical Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Clouds IV - Honolulu, HI, United States Duration: 2004 Nov 9 → 2004 Nov 10

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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