Progress Towards Improved MOPITT-based Biomass Burning Emission Inventories for the Amazon Basin

Merritt N Deeter1, Louisa K Emmons2, Sara Martinez-Alonso3, Christine Wiedinmyer4, Avelino F Arellano Jr5, Emily V Fischer6, Laura González-Alonso7, Maria Val Martin8, Luciana V Gatti9, John B Miller10, Manuel Gloor11, Lucas G Domingues9 and Caio Silvestre de Carvalho Correia9, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder, United States, (4)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, (8)University of Sheffield, Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation; School of Biosciences, Sheffield, United Kingdom, (9)IPEN Nuclear Energy Research Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (10)NOAA Boulder, ESRL, Boulder, United States, (11)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom