Modeling the smoky troposphere of the southeast Atlantic: a comparison to ORACLES airborne observations from September of 2016

<p>In the southeast Atlantic, well-defined smoke plumes from Africa advect over marine boundary layer cloud decks; both are most extensive around September, when most of the smoke resides in the free troposphere. A framework is put forth for evaluating the performance of a range of global and...

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Main Authors: Y. Shinozuka, P. E. Saide, G. A. Ferrada, S. P. Burton, R. Ferrare, S. J. Doherty, H. Gordon, K. Longo, M. Mallet, Y. Feng, Q. Wang, Y. Cheng, A. Dobracki, S. Freitag, S. G. Howell, S. LeBlanc, C. Flynn, M. Segal-Rosenhaimer, K. Pistone, J. R. Podolske, E. J. Stith, J. R. Bennett, G. R. Carmichael, A. da Silva, R. Govindaraju, R. Leung, Y. Zhang, L. Pfister, J.-M. Ryoo, J. Redemann, R. Wood, P. Zuidema
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2020-10-01
Series:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Online Access:https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/20/11491/2020/acp-20-11491-2020.pdf