Articles | Volume 21, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-1407-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-1407-2021
Research article
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02 Feb 2021
Research article |  | 02 Feb 2021

Wildfire smoke-plume rise: a simple energy balance parameterization

Nadya Moisseeva and Roland Stull

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Wildfire smoke-plume rise, which determines the emissions injection height, is widely recognized as an area of uncertainty within regional and global chemical transport models. In this work we propose a simple energy balance parameterization to predict the mean smoke equilibrium height for fires of arbitrary shape and intensity.
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