Enhancement of surface cooling due to forest fire smoke
In four different cases of extensive forest fire smoke the surface temperature ffects were determined under the smoke cloud. In all cases, daytime cooling and no nighttime effects were found. The locations of smoke clouds from extensive forest fires in western Canada in 1981 and 1982, in northern Ch...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.694.8133 2023-05-15T18:48:58+02:00 Enhancement of surface cooling due to forest fire smoke Alan Robock The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1988 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.694.8133 http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/RobockForestFire91JD02043.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.694.8133 http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/RobockForestFire91JD02043.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/RobockForestFire91JD02043.pdf text 1988 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T18:35:06Z In four different cases of extensive forest fire smoke the surface temperature ffects were determined under the smoke cloud. In all cases, daytime cooling and no nighttime effects were found. The locations of smoke clouds from extensive forest fires in western Canada in 1981 and 1982, in northern China and Siberia in 1987, and in Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming in 1988 were determined from satellite imagery. As these smoke clouds passed over the midwestern United States for the Canadian and Yellow-stone fires and over Alaska for the Chinese/Siberian fires, surface air temperature ffects were determined by comparing actual surface air temperatures with those forecast by model output statistics (MOS) of the United States National Weather Service. MOS error fields corresponding to the smoke cloud locations showed day-time cooling of 1.5 ø to 7ø(2 under the smoke but no nighttime ffects. These results correspond to theoretical estimates of the effects of smoke, and they serve as observational confirmation of a portion of the nuclear winter theory. This also implies that smoke from biomass burning can have a daytime cooling effect of a few degrees over seasonal time scales. In order to properly simulate the present climate with a numerical cli-mate model in regions of regular burning it may be necessary to include this smoke effect. 1. Text Alaska Siberia Unknown Canada |
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In four different cases of extensive forest fire smoke the surface temperature ffects were determined under the smoke cloud. In all cases, daytime cooling and no nighttime effects were found. The locations of smoke clouds from extensive forest fires in western Canada in 1981 and 1982, in northern China and Siberia in 1987, and in Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming in 1988 were determined from satellite imagery. As these smoke clouds passed over the midwestern United States for the Canadian and Yellow-stone fires and over Alaska for the Chinese/Siberian fires, surface air temperature ffects were determined by comparing actual surface air temperatures with those forecast by model output statistics (MOS) of the United States National Weather Service. MOS error fields corresponding to the smoke cloud locations showed day-time cooling of 1.5 ø to 7ø(2 under the smoke but no nighttime ffects. These results correspond to theoretical estimates of the effects of smoke, and they serve as observational confirmation of a portion of the nuclear winter theory. This also implies that smoke from biomass burning can have a daytime cooling effect of a few degrees over seasonal time scales. In order to properly simulate the present climate with a numerical cli-mate model in regions of regular burning it may be necessary to include this smoke effect. 1. |
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