Articles | Volume 26, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-515-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-515-2026
Peer-reviewed comment
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09 Jan 2026
Peer-reviewed comment |  | 09 Jan 2026

Comment on “Thermal infrared observations of a western United States biomass burning aerosol plume” by Sorenson et al. (2024)

Michael D. Fromm

Data sets

ASOS-AWOS-METAR Data Iowa Environmental Mesonet of Iowa State University https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/download.phtml

NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) 16, 17, 18 & 19 NOAA Big Data initiative https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-goes/

Short summary
Dense, fresh wildfire smoke plumes associated with longwave cooling occur day and night. The cooling is attributable to large particulate matter in the smoke, not shielding of incoming solar radiation as previously hypothesized.
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