Optical and Chemical Properties of Wildfire Aerosol Plumes in the Free Troposphere

Nora Nowak1, Benjamin T Brem1, Martine Collaud Coen2, Martin Steinbacher3, Stefan Reimann3, Martin K Vollmer3, Stephan Henne3, Franz Conen4 and Martin Gysel1, (1)Paul Scherrer Institute, Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Villigen, Switzerland, (2)MeteoSwiss, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, Payerne, Switzerland, (3)Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for Air Pollution/Environmental Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland, (4)University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences, Basel, Switzerland