Enhancement of carbon monoxide concentration in atmosphere due to large scale forest fire of Uttarakhand.

ABSTRACT: The richly forested Indian state of Uttarakhand experienced widespread forest fires in April to May 2016. The current study examines dispersion of carbon monoxide (CO) from the source regions of forest fire to distant places, using the Lagrangian particle dispersion model, FLEXPART. Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) observations revealed that CO columnar concentrations had increased by almost 28 percentage during 24 April to 02 May 2016 with respect to the previous non-burning period of April 2016 at Uttarakhand. It is also seen that there is considerable enhancement of 45 percentage in average columnar concentration of CO during the burning period, compared to that in the previous 5 years as observed by AIRS. In the present study, concentrations of CO at different pressure levels and co

SUBMITTER: Thakur J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6452848 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature