The long-term transport and radiative impacts of the 2017 British Columbia pyrocumulonimbus smoke aerosols in the stratosphere

Das, Sampa; Colarco, Peter R.; Oman, Luke D.; Taha, Ghassan; Torres, Omar

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12069-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 15

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12069-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12069-2021

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

Articles | Volume 21, issue 15

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12 Aug 2021

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The long-term transport and radiative impacts of the 2017 British Columbia pyrocumulonimbus smoke aerosols in the stratosphere

Sampa Das, Peter R. Colarco, Luke D. Oman, Ghassan Taha, and Omar Torres

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RC1: 'Review to Das et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Feb 2021
SC1: 'some questions and remarks to acp-2020-1240', Albert Ansmann, 21 Feb 2021
RC2: 'Review of Das et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Feb 2021
RC3: 'Review of “ Pyrocumulonimbus Events over British Columbia in 2017: The Long-term Transport and Radiative Impacts of Smoke Aerosols in the Stratosphere” by Das et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 02 Mar 2021
AC1: 'Comment on acp-2020-1240', Sampa Das, 27 Apr 2021
AC2: 'Author Response to Short Comment on acp-2020-1240', Sampa Das, 27 Apr 2021

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AR by Sampa Das on behalf of the Authors (27 Apr 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (03 May 2021) by Manvendra Krishna Dubey

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (04 May 2021)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (04 May 2021)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (03 Jun 2021) by Manvendra Krishna Dubey

AR by Sampa Das on behalf of the Authors (13 Jun 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (25 Jun 2021) by Manvendra Krishna Dubey

AR by Sampa Das on behalf of the Authors (12 Jul 2021)

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Interactions of extreme fires with weather systems can produce towering smoke plumes that inject aerosols at very high altitudes (> 10 km). Three such major injections, largest at the time in terms of emitted aerosol mass, took place over British Columbia, Canada, in August 2017. We model the transport and impacts of injected aerosols on the radiation balance of the atmosphere. Our model results match the satellite-observed plume transport and residence time at these high altitudes very closely.