Articles | Volume 20, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11201-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11201-2020
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30 Sep 2020
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Absorption closure in highly aged biomass burning smoke

Jonathan W. Taylor, Huihui Wu, Kate Szpek, Keith Bower, Ian Crawford, Michael J. Flynn, Paul I. Williams, James Dorsey, Justin M. Langridge, Michael I. Cotterell, Cathryn Fox, Nicholas W. Davies, Jim M. Haywood, and Hugh Coe

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CLARIFY: in-situ airborne observations by the FAAM BAE-146 aircraft Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements, Natural Environment Research Council, and Met Office https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/38ab7089781a4560b067dd6c20af3769

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Every year, huge plumes of smoke hundreds of miles wide travel over the south Atlantic Ocean from fires in central and southern Africa. These plumes absorb the sun’s energy and warm the climate. We used airborne optical instrumentation to determine how absorbing the smoke was as well as the relative importance of black and brown carbon. We also tested different ways of simulating these properties that could be used in a climate model.
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