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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-9969-2022
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-9969-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Important role of stratospheric injection height for the distribution and radiative forcing of smoke aerosol from the 2019–2020 Australian wildfires
Bernd Heinold
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Holger Baars
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Boris Barja
Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Magallanes, Avenida Bulnes 01855 Punta Arenas, Chile
Matthew Christensen
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
now at: Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
Anne Kubin
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Kevin Ohneiser
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Kerstin Schepanski
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
now at: Institute of Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6–10, 12165 Berlin, Germany
Nick Schutgens
Department of Earth Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Fabian Senf
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Roland Schrödner
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Diego Villanueva
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
now at: Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Universitätsstr. 16, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Ina Tegen
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Data sets
Data for paper publication 'Important role of stratospheric injection height for the distribution and radiative forcing of smoke aerosol from the 2019/2020 Australian wildfires' Bernd Heinold, Holger Baars, Boris Barja, Anne Kubin, Kevin Ohneiser, and Ina Tegen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5571545
Model code and software
The chemistry–climate model ECHAM6.3-HAM2.3-MOZ1.0 HAMMOZ community https://redmine.hammoz.ethz.ch
Short summary
The extreme 2019–2020 Australian wildfires produced massive smoke plumes lofted into the lower stratosphere by pyrocumulonimbus convection. Most climate models do not adequately simulate the injection height of such intense fires. By combining aerosol-climate modeling with prescribed pyroconvective smoke injection and lidar observations, this study shows the importance of the representation of the most extreme wildfire events for estimating the atmospheric energy budget.
The extreme 2019–2020 Australian wildfires produced massive smoke plumes lofted into the lower...
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