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Articles | Volume 21, issue 19
Articles | Volume 21, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-14815-2021
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 19
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06 Oct 2021
Research article |  | 06 Oct 2021

Observations of supermicron-sized aerosols originating from biomass burning in southern Central Africa

Rose M. Miller, Greg M. McFarquhar, Robert M. Rauber, Joseph R. O'Brien, Siddhant Gupta, Michal Segal-Rozenhaimer, Amie N. Dobracki, Arthur J. Sedlacek, Sharon P. Burton, Steven G. Howell, Steffen Freitag, and Caroline Dang

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A large stratocumulus cloud deck resides off the west coast of central Africa. Biomass burning in Africa produces a large plume of aerosol that is carried by the wind over this stratocumulus cloud deck. This paper shows that particles with sizes from 0.01 to 1 mm reside within this plume. Past studies have shown that biomass burning produces such particles, but this is the first study to show that they can be transported westward, over long distances, to the Atlantic stratocumulus cloud deck.
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