Characterization of forest fire smoke event near Washington, DC in summer 2013 with multi-wavelength lidar

Veselovskii, I.; Whiteman, D. N; Korenskiy, M.; Suvorina, A.; Kolgotin, A.; Lyapustin, A.; Wang, Y.; Chin, M.; Bian, H.; Kucsera, T. L.; Pérez-Ramírez, D.; Holben, B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-1647-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-1647-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-1647-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 4

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17 Feb 2015

Research article |

| 17 Feb 2015

Characterization of forest fire smoke event near Washington, DC in summer 2013 with multi-wavelength lidar

I. Veselovskii, D. N Whiteman, M. Korenskiy, A. Suvorina, A. Kolgotin, A. Lyapustin, Y. Wang, M. Chin, H. Bian, T. L. Kucsera, D. Pérez-Ramírez, and B. Holben

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RC C9315: 'Minor revisons', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Nov 2014
- AC C10935: 'Respond to Referee 1', Igor Veselovskii, 07 Jan 2015
RC C9357: 'Review of “Characterization of forest fire smoke event near Washington, DC in Summer 2013 with multi-wavelength lidar” by Veselovskii et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Nov 2014
- AC C10938: 'Respond to Referee 2', Igor Veselovskii, 07 Jan 2015

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Short summary

The multi-wavelength lidar technique was applied to the study of a smoke event near Washington, DC on 26-28 August 2013. Satellite observations combined with transport model predictions imply that the smoke plume originated mainly from Wyoming/Idaho forest fires. The NASA GSFC multi-wavelength Mie-Raman lidar was used to profile the smoke particle parameters such as volume density, effective radius and the real part of the refractive index.