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

Mariya M Petrenko1, Ralph A Kahn2, Mian Chin1 and Maria Val Martin3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Sheffield, Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation; School of Biosciences, Sheffield, United Kingdom