Ground/space, passive/active remote sensing observations coupled with particle dispersion modelling to understand the inter-continental transport of wildfire smoke plumes

• Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment
• Main Authors: Sicard, M., Granados-Muñoz, M. J., Alados-Arboledas, L., Barragán, R., Bedoya-Velásquez, A. E., Benavent-Oltra, J. A., Bortoli, Daniele, Comerón, A., Córdoba-Jabonero, Costa, Maria João, del Águila, A., Fernández, A., Guerrero-Rascado, J. L., Jorba, O., Molero, F., Muñoz-Porcar, C., Ortiz-Amezcua, P., Papagiannopoulos, N., Potes, Miguel, Pujadas, M., Rocadenbosch, F., Rodríguez-Gómez, A., Román, Salgado, Rui, Salgueiro, Vanda, Sola, Y., Yela, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Ground-based and space-borne lidars; Long-range transport of smoke plume; Injection of particles up to the upper troposphere; Particle dispersion model; Smoke particle absorption and depolarization properties; British Columbia; Canada; Pacific; Aerosol Robotic Network
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/25874; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003442571930313X?dgcid=author; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111294

During the 2017 record-breaking burning season in Canada/United States, intense wild fires raged during the first week of September in the Pacific northwestern region (British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and northern California) burning mostly temperate coniferous forests....