Heat flux assumptions contribute to overestimation of wildfire smoke injection into the free troposphere

Heat flux assumptions contribute to overestimation of wildfire smoke injection into the free troposphere

False injections in wildfire plume rise simulations are partly due to the assumed radiant fraction of heat flux being 0.5–25 times higher than observations, according to an evaluation of a common plume rise parameterization against aircraft observations during the 2019 Western US wildfires.

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Main Authors: Laura H. Thapa, Xinxin Ye, Johnathan W. Hair, Marta A. Fenn, Taylor Shingler, Shobha Kondragunta, Charles Ichoku, RoseAnne Dominguez, Luke Ellison, Amber J. Soja, Emily Gargulinski, Ravan Ahmadov, Eric James, Georg A. Grell, Saulo R. Freitas, Gabriel Pereira, Pablo E. Saide
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00563-x

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00563-x

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