Relation between CO and Black Carbon from Satellite Measurements
Sang Seo Park, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Jhoon Kim, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Particulate Matter Research Institute, Suwon, South Korea, Hyunkwang Lim, Yonsei University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, South Korea and Jungbin Mok, University of Maryland College Park, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science (AOSC), College Park, MD, United States
Abstract:
The Black Carbon (BC) is designated by one of the potential factor for global warming (IPCC, 2007). Furthermore, carbon monoxide (CO) is also important gas to modify chemical, physical and climatological properties of tropospheric chemistry. Both CO and carbonaceous aerosol, especial to the black carbon, are similar emission sources, fuel combustion and biomass burning. Previously, the MODIS-OMI algorithm (MOA) identified the BC amount and its location by using Angstrom Exponent (AE) from MODIS and Aerosol Index (AI) from OMI. In addition, the CO amount has been traced by the Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) since 1999. Therefore, the correlation between the AOD of BC (AODBC) and total column densities of CO (TCDCO) can be estimated by MOA and MOPITT.
The correlation between AODBC and TCDCO becomes better than that between fine mode AOD and TCDCO in most global regions. Highly correlated case is the region with biomass burning and wild fires. In Southern Africa, however, the correlation coefficient between AODBC and TCDCO is lower than those between fine mode AOD and TCDCO. It is explained by the characteristics of wind fields, sources of aerosols, and distance from the source regions from the difference in the correlation. The results from correlation studies propose the possibilities that CO can be used as surrogates of BC and reference of the validation for the aerosol classification algorithm of BC from satellite measurements.
