Analysis of the Chemical and Physical Properties of the Smoke from the 1991 Kuwait Oil Fires and Atmospheric Effectsof the Smoke

在1991年5月至6月的六周时间里， 华盛顿大学气溶胶研究小组进行了一项 对巨大烟柱的密集空中实地研究 由科威特的600多起石油大火产生。 排放率 这些火灾是：全球二氧化碳排放量的2%， 美国所有的电力公司， 在美国所有的燃烧源排放。 在这项赠款中，提供支持，以完成减少 并对项目中收集的大量数据进行分析， 并为其他用户存档数据集。 这项研究将 强调化学排放物性质的特征 从各种类型的火灾，区域分布的 排放，羽流成分的转换，因为他们 与其他污染环境相比， 以及烟雾对天气和气候的影响。

During a six week period in May-June 1991 the Cloud and Aerosol Research Group, University of Washington, carried out an intensive airborne field study of the enormous plume of smoke produced by over 600 oil fires in Kuwait. Rates of emissions from these fires were: 2% of worldwide emissions of CO2 emissions from all electric utilities in the USA, and thirteen times the soot emissions form all combustion sources in the USA. In this grant support is provided to complete the reduction and analysis of the large amount of data collected in the project, and to archive the data set for other users. This research will emphasize characterization of the nature of the chemical emissions from the various types of fires, the regional distributions of the emissions, the transformations of plume constituents as they dispersed downwind, comparisons with other polluted environments, and the effects of the smoke on weather and climate.