Quantifying the impact of BOReal forest fires on Tropospheric oxidants over the Atlantic using Aircraft and Satellites (BORTAS)

The overarching goal of BORTAS is to investigate the connection between the composition and the distribution of biomass burning outflow, ozone production and loss within the outflow, and the resulting perturbation to oxidant chemistry in the troposphere.

Principal investigators: Universities of Edinburgh (Palmer), York (Bernath, Lee, Lewis) and Leeds (Rickard, Pilling).
Project partners: Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Leicester, Manchester (UK); CNRS, Free University of Amsterdam (Europe); Dalhousie University, Environment Canada, NASA, Washington State University (North America); and the University of the Azores.