The California Wildfire plume: Aircraft in situ and Remotely Sensed Observations
Abstract
In the summer and fall of 2020 massive wildfires near the west coast of the US generated extensive smoke plumes. These plumes had distinctive aerosol and trace gas signatures and their impact on air quality, weather and climate extended thousands of km downwind. We present aircraft measurements of aerosol optical properties, and concentrations of trace gases collected over the eastern US to help characterize the aging, transport and transformations of these pollutants. The origins, size, and evolution of the smoke plumes is characterized with a variety of space borne instruments to help explain the development of ozone and of novel aerosol size and radiative characteristics.
- Publication:
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43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January - 4 February
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021cosp...43E..12D