Forest-fire aerosol–weather feedbacks over western North America using a high-resolution, online coupled air-quality model

Makar, Paul A.; Akingunola, Ayodeji; Chen, Jack; Pabla, Balbir; Gong, Wanmin; Stroud, Craig; Sioris, Christopher; Anderson, Kerry; Cheung, Philip; Zhang, Junhua; Milbrandt, Jason

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-10557-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-10557-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-10557-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 13

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14 Jul 2021

Research article |

| 14 Jul 2021

Forest-fire aerosol–weather feedbacks over western North America using a high-resolution, online coupled air-quality model

Paul A. Makar, Ayodeji Akingunola, Jack Chen, Balbir Pabla, Wanmin Gong, Craig Stroud, Christopher Sioris, Kerry Anderson, Philip Cheung, Junhua Zhang, and Jason Milbrandt

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RC1: 'Review of the Forest Fire Aerosol – Weather Feedbacks over Western North America', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Nov 2020
RC2: 'Referee report on Makar et al, Forest Fire Aerosol – Weather Feedbacks over Western North America Using a High-Resolution, Fully Coupled, Air-Quality Model', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Dec 2020
AC1: 'Response to Reviewer's comments, for acp-2020-938', Paul A. Makar, 16 Mar 2021

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AR by Paul Makar on behalf of the Authors (16 Mar 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (17 Mar 2021) by Ari Laaksonen

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (14 Apr 2021)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (26 Apr 2021) by Ari Laaksonen

AR by Paul Makar on behalf of the Authors (13 May 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes

ED: Publish as is (18 May 2021) by Ari Laaksonen

AR by Paul Makar on behalf of the Authors (18 May 2021) Author's response Manuscript

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We have examined the effects of airborne particles on absorption and scattering of incoming sunlight by the particles themselves via cloud formation. We used an advanced, combined high-resolution weather forecast and chemical transport computer model, for western North America, and simulations with and without the connections between particles and weather enabled. Feedbacks improved weather and air pollution forecasts and changed cloud behaviour and forest-fire pollutant amount and height.