Model-Observation Comparisons of Biomass Burning Smoke and Clouds Over the Southeast Atlantic Ocean

Sarah J Doherty1, Pablo Saide2, Paquita Zuidema3, Yohei Shinozuka4, Arlindo daSilva5, Greg M McFarquhar6, Leonhard Pfister7, Gregory R Carmichael8, Gonzalo Andres Ferrada9, Steven G Howell10, Steffen Freitag10, Amie Nicole Dobracki11, Nikolai Smirnow11, Karla Longo12, Samuel E LeBlanc13, Adeyemi A Adebiyi14, James Robert Podolske7, Jennifer D. Small Griswold15, Ashley Hekkila11, Rei Ueyama7, Robert Wood16, Jens Redemann17 and The ORACLES Science Team, (1)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, (2)Boston, MA, United States, (3)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (7)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (8)University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Iowa City, United States, (9)University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA, United States, (10)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (11)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (12)CPTEC Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate Research, Grupo de Modelagem da Atmosfera e Interfaces - GMAI, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil, (13)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, United States, (14)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (15)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States, (16)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, (17)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States