Sandro Toshio Uehara1, Eduardo Landulfo1, Saulo Freitas2, Karla Longo2, Walter Nakaema1, Caio Matos1

1Institudo de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares, Universidade de São Paulo
2CPTEC

 

Recently, the human activities over the climate change and its effects on the atmosphere have awaked great interest. The LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) system consists to send a laser pulse to atmosphere and collect the backscattered light, allowing evaluate the species present on the atmosphere, including the monitoring of ozone layer in great urban centers and biomass burning in remote rural areas. In this work, will be presented a study about the monitoring of biomass burning over the remote areas of brazilian territory, correlating data provided from a LIDAR system loacated at Center for Lasers ans Applications (CLA) at Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN) in Sao Paulo and results from the BRAMS (Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric System) model from the Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos (CPTEC). Preliminary results showed that LIDAR information can be a useful tool for validating the atmospheric model.