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Articles | Volume 20, issue 22
Articles | Volume 20, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13985-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13985-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 20, issue 22
Research article
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19 Nov 2020
Research article |  | 19 Nov 2020

Wildfire smoke in the lower stratosphere identified by in situ CO observations

Joram J. D. Hooghiem, Maria Elena Popa, Thomas Röckmann, Jens-Uwe Grooß, Ines Tritscher, Rolf Müller, Rigel Kivi, and Huilin Chen

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Wildfires release a large quantity of pollutants that can reach the stratosphere through pyro-convection events. In September 2017, a stratospheric plume was accidentally sampled during balloon soundings in northern Finland. The source of the plume was identified to be wildfire smoke based on in situ measurements of carbon monoxide (CO) and stable isotope analysis of CO. Furthermore, the age of the plume was estimated using backwards transport modelling to be ~24 d, with its origin in Canada.
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