Biomass Burning Unlikely to Account for Missing Source of Carbonyl Sulfide

Stinecipher, James R.; Cameron‐Smith, P. J.; Blake, N. J.; Kuai, L.; Lejeune, B.; Mahieu, E.; Simpson, I. J.; Campbell, J. Elliott

doi:10.1029/2019GL085567

Title: Biomass Burning Unlikely to Account for Missing Source of Carbonyl Sulfide

Journal Article · 08 December 2019 · Geophysical Research Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085567 · OSTI ID:1632377

Stinecipher, James R. ^[1]; Cameron‐Smith, P. J. ^[2]; Blake, N. J. ^[3]; Kuai, L. ^[4]; Lejeune, B. ^[5]; Mahieu, E. ^[5]; Simpson, I. J. ^[3]; Campbell, J. Elliott ^[6]

Univ. of California, Merced, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab. (JPL)
Univ. of Liege, (Belgium)
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)

Carbonyl sulfide (OCS) provides a proxy for measuring photosynthesis and is the primary background source of stratospheric aerosols. OCS emissions due to biomass burning are a variable and substantial (over 10%) part of the current OCS budget. OCS emission ratios from open burning fires, coupled with 1997–2016 data from the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED4), yield OCS biomass burning emissions with a global average annual flux of 60 ± 37 Gg(S) year^-1. Here, a global box model suggests these emissions are more consistent with observations from global atmospheric composition monitoring networks than fluxes derived from previous synthesis papers. Even after considering the uncertainty in emission factor observations for each category of emissions and the interannual variation in total burned dry matter, the total OCS emissions from open burning are insufficient to account for the large imbalance between current estimates of global OCS sources and sinks.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC52-07NA27344; SC0011999

OSTI ID:: 1632377

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL--786902; 980824

Journal Information:: Geophysical Research Letters, Journal Name: Geophysical Research Letters Journal Issue: 24 Vol. 46; ISSN 0094-8276

Publisher:: American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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