Biomass burning declines lead to large net reductions in NO<sub>2 </sub>concentrations over north equatorial Africa in spite of growing fossil fuel emissions

Hickman, Jonathan

Biomass burning declines lead to large net reductions in NO₂concentrations over north equatorial Africa in spite of growing fossil fuel emissions

Jonathan E Hickman¹, Niels Andela², Money Ossohou³, Corinne Galy-Lacaux⁴, Kostas Tsigaridis⁵ and Susanne Bauer¹, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Laboratoire de Physique de l’Atmosphère et de Mécanique des Fluides, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire, (4)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (5)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

Biomass burning declines lead to large net reductions in NO2 concentrations over north equatorial Africa in spite of growing fossil fuel emissions

Biomass burning declines lead to large net reductions in NO₂concentrations over north equatorial Africa in spite of growing fossil fuel emissions