GC038
Extreme Wildfires and Smoke Plumes: Past, Present, and Future
Session ID#: 79362
Session Description:
Recent boreal wildfire seasons have punctuated an apparent evolution toward greater anomalies in wildfire behavior, explosive pyroconvection, and hemisphere-scale smoke plumes. A 2017 wildfire complex in Canada generated pyrocumulonimbus storms and a stratospheric smoke plume that lasted for more than six months. In 2018 pyrocumulonimbus eruptions were detected for the first time in extratropical South America and Africa. Such fire-behavior and fire-weather extremes may become more commonplace in a changing climate. This session will assess the impact of these and other extreme fire events on communities, weather, and climate. We solicit reports on specific fire events and anomalous smoke plumes in general. Contributions to this session will address the challenges imposed on remote sensing systems by extreme fire events, the hemispheric atmospheric impact, and our modeling/predictive capability. We solicit contributions on measurement and modeling perspectives into extreme wildfire phenomena: past, present, and future.
Index Terms:
0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0341 Middle atmosphere: constituent transport and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3362 Stratosphere/troposphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Michael D Fromm, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Convener: Peter Richard Colarco, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison: George P Kablick, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Impacts of increased Siberian wildfire on air pollution, radiative forcing, and climate at present and in the future assessed with MIROC AOGCM (494429)
Teppei J Yasunari, Hokkaido University, Arctic Research Center, Sapporo, Japan and Toshihiko Takemura, Kyushu University, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Fukuoka, Japan
Transport, Composition, and Lifetime of Extreme Wildfire Smoke to Assess their Impacts (Invited) (499770)
Manvendra Krishna Dubey1, J M Reisner1, Steve Guimond2, Gennaro D'Angelo3, Eunmo Koo1, Allison C Aiken1, David A Peterson4 and Michael D Fromm5, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States, (5)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Mobile ground-based remote sensing systems to study plume dynamics of large wildfires (Invited) (500012)
Craig B Clements1, Neil Lareau2, Nicholas McCarthy3, Taylor Aydell4 and Matthew Brewer1, (1)San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States, (2)University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (3)University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, (4)San Jose State University, Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA, United States
Lifetime and 3D spatial variability of the 2017 Stratospheric Carbonaceous Aerosol Plume: a satellite view (502055)
Omar Torres1, Pawan K Bhartia1, Ghassan Taha2, Hiren T Jethva3, Changwoo Ahn4, Nickolay Anatoly Krotkov1, Sampa Das5 and Peter Richard Colarco1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association, NASA/code 614, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)SSAI, Lanham, MD, United States, (5)NASA Post-doctoral Program, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States
CALIOP View of Stratospheric Smoke Caused by 2019 Boreal Summer Wildfires (503417)
Jason Lucas Tackett1, Jayanta Kar2, Ali H Omar3, Mark Vaughan1, Charles R Trepte1 and David M Winker1, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)NASA/Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States
Quantifying the Impact of Intense Pyroconvection on Stratospheric Aerosol Loading (510480)
David A Peterson1, Edward J Hyer2, James R Campbell2, Michael D Fromm3, Tyler Van4, Christel Bennese5 and Melinda Berman6, (1)Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States, (5)San Jose State University, San Jose, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Scaling Potential Macroeconomic Impacts of Climate Effects of Siberian Wildfires: Insights from MIROC-SPRINTARS AOGCM Experiments (525766)
Daiju Narita, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Teppei J Yasunari, Hokkaido University, Arctic Research Center, Sapporo, Japan and Toshihiko Takemura, Kyushu University, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Fukuoka, Japan
Using Satellite Information And Measurements From Ground-Based Monitors During The October 2017 Fires In Northern California To Construct High Resolution PM2.5 Maps (569059)
Yifan Ding1, Isa Cruz2, Akula Venkatram1 and Frank Freedman3, (1)University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, (2)San Jose State University, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA, United States, (3)San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States
The Long-Lived Plume of the Pacific Northwest PyroCb Event: MLS Observations and Modeling of Composition Evolution (601051)
Michael J Schwartz, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Hugh C Pumphrey, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Pengfei Yu, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China and George P Kablick, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
The Mother of all PyroCbs: How did the Pacific Northwest PyroCb Event in 2017 Stand Out? (601509)
Michael D Fromm1, George P Kablick1, David A Peterson2, Colin J Seftor3, Ralph A Kahn4, Verity J. B. Flower5 and Rene Servranckx6, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI, United States, (6)Canadian Meteorological Ctr, Dorval, QC, Canada
Mobile Ka-band Scanning Polarimetric Doppler Radar Observations of Wildfire Smoke Plumes (619494)
Taylor Aydell, San Jose State University, Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA, United States and Craig Clements, San Jose State University, Meteorology, San Jose, CA, United States
Quantifying fire progression and plume dynamics with weather radar during California’s deadly Camp fire. (628644)
Neil Lareau, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, CA, United States, Nicholas McCarthy, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and Amanda Donohoe, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, United States
