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Research article
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20 Jul 2022
Research article |
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| 20 Jul 2022
Radiative impacts of the Australian bushfires 2019–2020 – Part 1: Large-scale radiative forcing
Pasquale Sellitto
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Univ. Paris-Est Créteil and Université de Paris Cité, CNRS, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des
Systèmes Atmosphériques, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Créteil, France
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo,
Catania, Italy
Redha Belhadji
Univ. Paris-Est Créteil and Université de Paris Cité, CNRS, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des
Systèmes Atmosphériques, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Créteil, France
Corinna Kloss
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Environnement et de l'Espace,
Orléans, France
Bernard Legras
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, UMR CNRS 8539,
École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, École
Polytechnique, Sorbonne Universités, École des Ponts PARISTECH,
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France
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Short summary
As a consequence of extreme heat and drought, record-breaking wildfires ravaged south-eastern Australia during the fire season in 2019–2020. Fires injected a smoke plume very high up to the stratosphere, which dispersed quite quickly to the whole Southern Hemisphere and interacted with solar radiation, reflecting and absorbing part of it – thus producing impacts on the climate system. Here we estimate this impact on radiation and we study how it depends on the properties and ageing of the plume.
As a consequence of extreme heat and drought, record-breaking wildfires ravaged south-eastern...
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