How the extreme 2019–2020 Australian wildfires affected global circulation and adjustments

Senf, Fabian; Heinold, Bernd; Kubin, Anne; Müller, Jason; Schrödner, Roland; Tegen, Ina

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-8939-2023

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The role of fire in the Earth system: understanding interactions...

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11 Aug 2023

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How the extreme 2019–2020 Australian wildfires affected global circulation and adjustments

Fabian Senf, Bernd Heinold, Anne Kubin, Jason Müller, Roland Schrödner, and Ina Tegen

Data sets

Dataset associated with Senf et al. (2023): "How the extreme 2019-2020 Australian wildfire affected global circulation and adjustments" Fabian Senf, Bernd Heinold, Anne Kubin, Jason Müller, Roland Schrödner, and Ina Tegen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7568466

Jupyter Notebooks for Plotting and Analysis of the "Circulation Responses for WiFi-AUS" study, Revision1 Release Fabian Senf https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7957666

Short summary

Wildfire smoke is a significant source of airborne atmospheric particles that can absorb sunlight. Extreme fires in particular, such as those during the 2019–2020 Australian wildfire season (Black Summer fires), can considerably affect our climate system. In the present study, we investigate the various effects of Australian smoke using a global climate model to clarify how the Earth's atmosphere, including its circulation systems, adjusted to the extraordinary amount of Australian smoke.