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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7173-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Fire emission heights in the climate system – Part 2: Impact on transport, black carbon concentrations and radiation
A. Veira
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, Hamburg, Germany
S. Kloster
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
N. A. J. Schutgens
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
J. W. Kaiser
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
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Global aerosol-climate models usually prescribe wildfire emission injections at fixed atmospheric levels. Here, we quantify the impact of prescribed and parametrized emission heights on aerosol long-range transport and radiation. For global emission height changes of 1.5-3.5km, we find a top-of-atmosphere radiative forcing of 0.05-0.1Wm-2. Replacing prescribed emission heights by a simple plume height parametrization only marginally improves the model performance in aerosol optical thickness.
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