Impact of biomass burning emission on total peroxy nitrates:  fire plume identification during the BORTAS campaign

Aruffo, Eleonora; Biancofiore, Fabio; Di Carlo, Piero; Busilacchio, Marcella; Verdecchia, Marco; Tomassetti, Barbara; Dari-Salisburgo, Cesare; Giammaria, Franco; Bauguitte, Stephane; Lee, James; Moller, Sarah; Hopkins, James; Punjabi, Shalini; Andrews, Stephen J.; Lewis, Alistair C.; Palmer, Paul I.; Hyer, Edward; Le Breton, Michael; Percival, Carl

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5591-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5591-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5591-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 11

Research article

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23 Nov 2016

Research article |

| 23 Nov 2016

Impact of biomass burning emission on total peroxy nitrates: fire plume identification during the BORTAS campaign

Eleonora Aruffo, Fabio Biancofiore, Piero Di Carlo, Marcella Busilacchio, Marco Verdecchia, Barbara Tomassetti, Cesare Dari-Salisburgo, Franco Giammaria, Stephane Bauguitte, James Lee, Sarah Moller, James Hopkins, Shalini Punjabi, Stephen J. Andrews, Alistair C. Lewis, Paul I. Palmer, Edward Hyer, Michael Le Breton, and Carl Percival

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RC1: 'Referre Comment to Biomass burning emission on total peroxy nitrates"', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Apr 2016
- AC1: 'Reply Referee 1', Eleonora Aruffo, 13 Jul 2016
- AC2: 'Corrected version - Reply Referee 1', Eleonora Aruffo, 13 Jul 2016
RC2: 'Review of "Impact of Biomass Burning emission on total peroxy nitrates: fire plume identification during the BORTAS campaign"', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 May 2016
- AC3: 'Reply Referee 2', Eleonora Aruffo, 13 Jul 2016

Short summary

During the BORTAS aircraft campaign, we measured NO₂ and their oxidtation products (as peroxy nitrates) with a custom laser-induced fluorescence instrument. Because of the high correlation between known pyrogenic tracers (i.e., carbon monoxide) and peroxy nitrates, we provide two methods to use these species for the identification of biomass burning (BB) plumes. Using an artifical neural network, we improved the BB identification taking into account of a meteorological parameter (pressure).