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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6247-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6247-2024
Research article
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29 Oct 2024
Research article |  | 29 Oct 2024

Can the remote sensing of combustion phase improve estimates of landscape fire smoke emission rate and composition?

Farrer Owsley-Brown, Martin J. Wooster, Mark J. Grosvenor, and Yanan Liu

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Landscape fires produce vast amounts of smoke, affecting the atmosphere locally and globally. Whether a fire is flaming or smouldering strongly impacts the rate at which smoke is produced as well as its composition. This study tested two methods to determine these combustion phases in laboratory fires and compared them to the smoke emitted. One of these methods improved estimates of smoke emission significantly. This suggests potential for improvement in global emission estimates.
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