Using satellite snapshots of aerosol optical depth to constrain biomass burning emissions for global model applications

Mariya M Petrenko1, Ralph A Kahn1, Mian Chin1 and Maria Val Martin2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Sheffield, Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation; School of Biosciences, Sheffield, United Kingdom