Fire emission heights in the climate system – Part 1: Global plume height patterns simulated by ECHAM6-HAM2

Veira, A.; Kloster, S.; Wilkenskjeld, S.; Remy, S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7155-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7155-2015

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7155-2015

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

Articles | Volume 15, issue 13

Research article

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01 Jul 2015

Research article |

| 01 Jul 2015

Fire emission heights in the climate system – Part 1: Global plume height patterns simulated by ECHAM6-HAM2

A. Veira, S. Kloster, S. Wilkenskjeld, and S. Remy

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RC C921: 'Fire Emission Heights in the Climate System Part I: Global Plume Height Patterns Simulated by ECHAM6-HAM2', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Mar 2015
- AC C1928: 'Author Response to Anonymous Referee #2', Andreas Veira, 27 Apr 2015
RC C2498: 'Review of Veira et al. by Reviewer 2', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 May 2015
- AC C2981: 'Author Response to Anonymous Referee #1', Andreas Veira, 26 May 2015

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AR by Andreas Veira on behalf of the Authors (26 May 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (01 Jun 2015) by Kostas Tsigaridis

AR by Andreas Veira on behalf of the Authors (02 Jun 2015)

Short summary

We discuss the representation of wildfire emission heights in global climate models. Our implementation of a simple, semi-empirical plume height parametrization in the aerosol-climate model ECHAM6-HAM2 shows reasonable agreement with observations and with a more complex plume rise model. In contrast, prescribed emission heights, which do not consider the intensity of individual fires, fail to adequately simulate global plume height patterns. Diurnal and seasonal cycles are of minor importance.