Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1173-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1173-2019
Research article
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30 Jan 2019
Research article |  | 30 Jan 2019

Long-range-transported Canadian smoke plumes in the lower stratosphere over northern France

Qiaoyun Hu, Philippe Goloub, Igor Veselovskii, Juan-Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Ioana Elisabeta Popovici, Thierry Podvin, Martial Haeffelin, Anton Lopatin, Oleg Dubovik, Christophe Pietras, Xin Huang, Benjamin Torres, and Cheng Chen

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Atmospheric Soundings University of Wyoming http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

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Smoke plumes generated in Canadian fire activities were elevated to the lower stratosphere and transported from North America to Europe. The smoke plumes were observed by three lidar systems in northern France. This study provides a comprehensive characterization for aged smoke aerosols at high altitude using lidar observations. It presents that fire activities on the Earth's surface can be an important contributor of stratospheric aerosols and impact the Earth's radiation budget.
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