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Megafire and Pyrocumulonimbus in the Climate System I eLightning

Thursday, 17 December 2020: 04:00-05:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Michael D Fromm, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  David A Peterson, Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  George P Kablick, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Michael D Fromm, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and David A Peterson, Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  George P Kablick, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
04:00
Australian PyroCb Smoke Generates Synoptic‐Scale Stratospheric Anticyclones (684265)
George P Kablick, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Douglas R Allen, U.S. Naval Research Lab, Remote Sensing Division, Washington, DC, United States, Michael D Fromm, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Gerald E Nedoluha, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States
04:03
Australian wildfires inject a volcanic-scale smoke plume into the stratosphere (734844)
David A Peterson1, Michael D Fromm2, Rick McRae3, Edward J Hyer1, James R Campbell4, Christopher P Camacho5, George P Kablick6, Ghassan Taha7 and Matthew T DeLand8, (1)Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (3)ACT Emergency Services Agency, Canberra, Australia, (4)Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States, (5)General Dynamics Information Technology, Monterey, CA, United States, (6)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Universities Space Research Association, NASA/code 614, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Sci Systems & Applications Inc, Lanham, MD, United States
04:06
Assessing the Radiative Impact of the 2019 – 2020 Australian Bushfires using Trajectory-Mapped CALIPSO Observations. (682434)
Hyundeok Choi1, Jean-Paul Vernier2, Thomas Duncan Fairlie1, Murali Natarajan1 and Hongyu Liu2, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States
04:09
Estimating stratospheric carbonaceous aerosols mass in the aftermath of pyro-convective activity using satellite observations (678236)
Omar Torres1, Peter Richard Colarco1, Sampa Das2, Ali H Omar3, Hiren T Jethva1 and Changwoo Ahn4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Post-doctoral Program, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States, (3)NASA/Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
04:12
Examination of the Effects of Aerosols on a PyroCb and Their Dependence on Fire Intensity and Aerosol Perturbation Using a Cloud-System Resolving Model (677254)
Seoung Soo Lee, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, George P Kablick, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Zhanqing Li, University of Maryland, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department, College Park, MD, United States
04:15
Is there a shift in stratospheric aerosol composition ? (755043)
Jean-Paul Vernier1,2, Hyundeok Choi1,2, Hongyu Liu1,2, Amber Jeanine Soja1,2, Murali Natarajan2, Mijeong Park3, Amit Kumar Pandit1,2 and Jayanta Kar2,4, (1)National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States
04:18
Long-lived smoke clouds from the Australian megafires measured over Lauder, New Zealand (770943)
Richard Querel1, Dan Smale1, Ben Liley1, Luke Oman2, Gerald E Nedoluha3, Tetsu Sakai4, Tomohiro Nagai4, Osamu Uchino5, Isamu Morino5, Jean-Paul Vernier6, Hyundeok Choi6, Larry Willis Thomason7, Travis N Knepp7, Jos de Laat8 and Ryan M Stauffer9, (1)National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Lauder, New Zealand, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, (5)Nat.Inst. for Environ. Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, (6)National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (8)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Satellite Observations, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands, (9)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
04:21
Multi-scale Simulations of Massive Stratospheric Smoke Injected by the 2017 British Columbia PyroCbs (673056)
Jon M Reisner1, Manvendra Krishna Dubey2, Eunmo Koo2, Alexander Josephson3 and Kyle Gorkowski3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, XCP-4, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
04:24
OMPS LP Observations of the 2019-2020 Australian Fires (705185)
Ghassan Taha, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Luke Oman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robert Paul Loughman, Ctr Atmospheric Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States
04:27
Persistent Stratospheric Warming due to 2019-20 Australian Wildfire Smoke (720674)
Pengfei Yu, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, Owen B Toon, Univ Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Sean M Davis, Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert W Portmann, Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Charles Bardeen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, John Edward Barnes, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, Hagen Telg, NOAA, ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Christopher Maloney, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Karen Hepler Rosenlof, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States
04:30
Smoke With Induced Rotation and Lofting (SWIRL) in the Stratosphere (670266)
Douglas R Allen, U.S. Naval Research Lab, Remote Sensing Division, Washington, DC, United States, Michael D Fromm, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, George P Kablick, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Gerald E Nedoluha, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States
04:33
The Climate Response to Megafires: Uncertainty Quantification for the 2017 British Columbia Stratospheric Mass Injection Event (713956)
Steve Guimond, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States, Gennaro D'Angelo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Manvendra Krishna Dubey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Jon M Reisner, Los Alamos National Laboratory, XCP-4, Los Alamos, NM, United States
04:36
Wildfire smoke over the North Pole during the winter period 2019-2020 and impact on cirrus evolution. (667965)
Kevin Ohneiser1, Albert Ansmann1, Ronny Engelmann1, Johannes Bühl1, Holger Baars1, Patric Seifert2, Martin Radenz1 and Hannes Griesche1, (1)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany, (2)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research - TROPOS, Leipzig, Germany
04:39
The Impact of the August 2017 Pacific-Northwest Pyrocumulonimbus Event on the Lower Stratospheric Composition (728464)
Giorgio Doglioni1, Valentina Aquila2, Sampa Das3, Peter Richard Colarco4, Ghassan Taha5, Dino Zardi6 and Gianluca Lattanzi1, (1)University of Trento, Department of Physics, Trento, Italy, (2)American University, Department of Environmental Science, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Universities Space Research Association, NASA/code 614, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Atmospheric Physics Group, Trento, Italy
04:42
An in-situ characterization of aged stratospheric smoke from the 2017 Pacific Northwest Event pyrocumulonimbus (736192)
Joseph M Katich1, Eric C Apel2, Ilann Bourgeois3, Charles A Brock4, Thaopaul V Bui5, Pedro Campuzano-Jost6, Roisin Commane7, Bruce C Daube8, Maximilian Dollner9, Michael D Fromm10, Karl D Froyd11, Alan J Hills12, Rebecca S Hornbrook2, Jose L Jimenez6, Agnieszka Kupc9, Kara D. Lamb7, Daniel M Murphy13, Benjamin Nault14, Jeff Peischl15, David A Peterson16, Thomas B Ryerson17, Gregory P Schill11, Jason Clay Schroder18, Chelsea R Thompson19, Bernadett Weinzierl9,20, Christina Williamson21, Stephen Wofsy22, Pengfei Yu23,24 and Joshua Peter Schwarz13, (1)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, / CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and Department of Chemistry, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States, (8)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (9)University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Vienna, Austria, (10)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (11)NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO, United States, (14)University of California Berkeley, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (15)CIRES and NOAA ESRL, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States, (17)NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (18)Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO, United States, (19)Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (20)Centreville, MD, United States, (21)NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, United States, (22)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (23)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (24)Jinan University China, Institute for Environment and Climate Research, Guangzhou, China
04:45
Discussion
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