Project: Study of air quality and detection of fire sources in the Paraná river delta from satellite measurements.
Linked Target Analyze the criteria pollutants O3, NO2, SO2 and CO2 in the metropolitan area of the city of Rosario and the number of fire sources in the Paraná river delta, using satellite measurements. This line of research is based on the processing of data that comes mainly from three international organizations: NASA (United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration), ESA (European Space Agency) and KNMI (Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment). from the Netherlands). For the selection, processing and automation of the analysis, own codes written in Python are executed. These results and those obtained by radiative transfer models (QDOAS, TUV and SMARTS) allow to evaluate the concentrations of the vertical columns of gases and aerosols that generally come from anthropogenic activities. Globally, it is estimated that between 80-95% of forest fires are caused by humans. Fires for livestock and/or agricultural purposes have been implemented in various regions of Argentina. Nearly 20% of all fire alerts detected in the country occur in the Paraná river delta. Through the analysis of data from the FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) of NASA and NOAA (National Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) of the United States, it is possible to identify the number of sources of fires as well as the burned area in the Paraná river delta in front of the city of Rosario. The combination of various techniques provides a comprehensive characterization of the spatiotemporal evolution of criteria pollutants as well as the monitoring of fires that occurred on the islands of the Paraná River. This study is transversal to various disciplines such as Physics of the Atmosphere, Air Quality, Climate Change, Renewable Energies, Remote Sensing, Environmental Chemistry and Photobiology.
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Director: Adriana Ipiña
Members: Rubén Piacentini and Raúl Bolmaro.
Students: Gamaliel López-Padilla, Constanza Zúñiga-Villarreal and Ana Laura Fisanotti.
Academic Unit: IFIR-CONICET-UNR (Rosario Physics Institute-National Council for Scientific and Technical Research -Universidad Nacional de Rosario), CIMAT-CONACYT (Mathematics Research Center – National Council of Science and Technology, Mexico) and CICECE-CONACYT (Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada Baja California – National Council of Science and Technology, Mexico)
Contact
ipina@ifir-conicet.gov.ar