Smoke of forest and peat fires is main regional factor of air pollution in summer time in

Belarus

Institute of Physics, NAS of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus,Institute of Geophysics, Warsaw, Poland

Map of fire fires spots, 15-08-2010, MODIS

TERRA-MODIS

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Column amount of fine and coarse aerosol modes during 2010, Minsk

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Space and altitude distribution of smoke, 17-08-2010

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Forest and and peat fires in Belarus, summer and autumn, 2002

Minsk, center, September 10

Forest and peat fires in Belarus, summer and autumn, 2002

Forest and and peat fires in Belarus, summer and autumn, 2002

Forest and and peat fires in Belarus, summer and autumn, 2002

Minsk, 09-09-2002

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Size Distributions (dV/dLnR), Minsk, 53.9 N, 27.6 E

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Forest and and peat fires in Belarus, summer and autumn, 2002

Smoke spreading over Europe, spring 200616-04-2006

Smoke spreading over Europe, spring 200620-04-2006

Smoke spreading over Europe, spring 200624-04-2006

Smoke spreading over Europe, spring 200628-04-2006

Smoke spreading over Europe, spring 200602-05-2006

Smoke spreading over Europe, spring 200606-05-2006

Smoke spreading over Europe, spring 2006

Smoke

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Fires smoke event, April 2006

Smoke spreading over Europe regions, spring, 2006

Impurity concentrations in the surface air, Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve

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Sites of remote

monitoring of

atmosphere in the East

Europe area and around:

- AERONET/PHOTONS

- EARLINET,

- Cis-LiNet,

- MPLNET sites,

SUMMARY• - Fire smoke and its transport from Western Russian

regions, Ukraine and, in to a lesser degree, Belarus became considerable ecological problem for Belarus, Poland, and Central and North part of Europe also.

• - Information about these events is claimed by administration of the service of environment protection. It is area for practical implementation of network activity. And not only fire smoke, but problem West-East pollution transport,

• - We will reach of high effectiveness in cooperative monitoring if groups involved obtain receive access to additional information about air pollution in the near-background layer in their regions.

• - The number of site that ready for such activity in the East Europe is quite insufficient. It situation should be changed.