Characteristics and Evolution of Particles and Gases in a Wild Fire Plume over a Time Scale of 8 Hours
Abstract
A recent, intensive aircraft campaign was conducted in northern Alberta, Canada. During June 2018, a comprehensive set of real-time aerosol and gas measurements, including those from a high resolution aerosol mass spectrometer (HR-AMS), were made aboard the National Research Council of Canada's Convair 580. Two back-to-back Lagrangian flights were conducted to measure the transport and transformation of pollutants associated with a wildfire located on the Saskatchewan/Alberta border. These flights included multiple transects at successive distances downwind of the fire with multiple altitudes flown at each transect to create virtual screens. This research will investigate the chemical characteristics and evolution of particles and gases as the wild fire plume travelled downwind over a time scale of 8 hours and spatial scale of 200 km. Initial results will be presented.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFM.A43K3199H
- Keywords:
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- 0305 Aerosols and particles;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTUREDE: 0320 Cloud physics and chemistry;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTUREDE: 0368 Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTUREDE: 3311 Clouds and aerosols;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES