Intercomparison of biomass burning aerosol optical properties from in situ and remote-sensing instruments in ORACLES-2016

Pistone, Kristina; Redemann, Jens; Doherty, Sarah; Zuidema, Paquita; Burton, Sharon; Cairns, Brian; Cochrane, Sabrina; Ferrare, Richard; Flynn, Connor; Freitag, Steffen; Howell, Steven G.; Kacenelenbogen, Meloë; LeBlanc, Samuel; Liu, Xu; Schmidt, K. Sebastian; Sedlacek III, Arthur J.; Segal-Rozenhaimer, Michal; Shinozuka, Yohei; Stamnes, Snorre; van Diedenhoven, Bastiaan; Van Harten, Gerard; Xu, Feng

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9181-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 14

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9181-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9181-2019

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Articles | Volume 19, issue 14

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18 Jul 2019

Research article |

| 18 Jul 2019

Intercomparison of biomass burning aerosol optical properties from in situ and remote-sensing instruments in ORACLES-2016

Kristina Pistone, Jens Redemann, Sarah Doherty, Paquita Zuidema, Sharon Burton, Brian Cairns, Sabrina Cochrane, Richard Ferrare, Connor Flynn, Steffen Freitag, Steven G. Howell, Meloë Kacenelenbogen, Samuel LeBlanc, Xu Liu, K. Sebastian Schmidt, Arthur J. Sedlacek III, Michal Segal-Rozenhaimer, Yohei Shinozuka, Snorre Stamnes, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Gerard Van Harten, and Feng Xu

Data sets

Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard P3 During ORACLES 2016, Version 1 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/P3/2016_V1

Suite of Aerosol, Cloud, and Related Data Acquired Aboard ER2 During ORACLES 2016, Version 1 ORACLES Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/Suborbital/ORACLES/ER2/2016_V1

AirMSPI ORACLES Cloud Droplet Size and Cloud Optical Depth AirMSPI Science Team https://doi.org/10.5067/AIRCRAFT/ORACLES/RADIANCE/AirMSPI

Model code and software

4STAR_codes: 4STAR processing codes 4STAR Team, S. LeBlanc, C. J. Flynn, Y. Shinozuka, M. Segal-Rozenhaimer, K. Pistone, M. Kacenelenbogen, J. Redemann, B. Schmid, P. Russell, J. Livingston, and Q. Zhang https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1492912

Short summary

Understanding how smoke particles interact with sunlight is important in calculating their effects on climate, since some smoke is more scattering (cooling) and some is more absorbing (heating). Knowing this proportion is important for both satellite observations and climate models. We measured smoke properties in a recent aircraft-based field campaign off the west coast of Africa and present a comparison of these properties as measured using the six different, independent techniques available.