Increased aerosol content in the atmosphere over Ukraine during summer 2010

Galytska, Evgenia; Danylevsky, Vassyl; Hommel, René; Burrows, John P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2101-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2101-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2101-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

Research article

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12 Apr 2018

Research article |

| 12 Apr 2018

Increased aerosol content in the atmosphere over Ukraine during summer 2010

Evgenia Galytska, Vassyl Danylevsky, René Hommel, and John P. Burrows

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2101-2018-supplement

Data sets

AERONET Level 2.0 (Quality Assured) Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) NASA https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov

MODIS (Terra and Aqua) AOD NASA https://modis-images.gsfc.nasa.gov/MOD04_L2/index.html

MODIS Active Fire Product NASA ftp://fuoco.geog.umd.edu/

Level 2 Cloud and Aerosol Layer and Profile products NASA https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/calipso/calipso_table

HYSPLIT model NOAA https://ready.arl.noaa.gov/HYSPLIT.php.

Short summary

This research assesses the influence of biomass burning during forest fires throughout summer 2010 on aerosol load over Ukraine, the European territory of Russia (ETR) and Eastern Europe. We apply and compare ground-based and satellite measurements to determine aerosol content, dynamics, and properties. With the application of modeling techniques (HYSPLIT), we show that the maximum AOD in August 2010 over Ukraine was caused by particle transport from the forest fires in the ETR.