Regional and seasonal effects on biomass burning aerosols

It is known that the biomass burning aerosols (BBA) generated by the large-scale forest fires and burn agriculture have influenced the severity of air pollution. Nevertheless the biomass burning plumes increase due to global warming and climate change and vice versa. It is worth noting that the near ultra violet (NUV) measurements are helpful for the detection of carbonaceous particles, which are the main component of aerosols from biomass burning. In this work, improved retrieval algorithms for BBA are interpreted by using the measurements observed by GLI and POLDER-2 on Japanese short term mission ADEOS-2 from December 2002 to October 2003. The GLI sensor has 380nm channel. Finally the obtained optical properties of BBA are investigated from the standpoint of spatial and temporal variations in comparison with the numerical model simulations.