A21J:
Extreme Wildfires and Smoke Plumes: Past, Present, and Future III Posters


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Session ID#: 52932

Session Description:
Recent boreal wildfire seasons have punctuated an apparent evolution toward greater anomalies in wildfire behavior, explosive pyroconvection, and hemisphere-scale smoke plumes.  A 2017 wildfire complex in Canada generated pyrocumulonimbus storms and  a stratospheric smoke plume comparable to a large volcanic eruption. Fires in Oklahoma this year consumed 127,880 ha, destroyed 60+ buildings, and generated a smoke plume transported at least 4,500 km.  Such fire-behavior and fire-weather extremes may become more commonplace in a changing climate. This session will assess the impact of these and other extreme fire events on communities, weather, and climate.  We solicit reports on specific fire events and anomalous smoke plumes in general. Contributions to this session will address the challenges imposed on remote sensing systems by extreme fire events, the hemispheric atmospheric impact, and our modeling/predictive capability.  We solicit contributions on measurement and modeling perspectives into extreme wildfire phenomena: past, present, and future.
Primary Convener:  Michael D Fromm, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Peter Richard Colarco, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Michael D Fromm, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Michael D Fromm, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Peter Richard Colarco, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Peter Richard Colarco, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0340 Middle atmosphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Refined Chemical Transport Modeling Improves Predictions of Rapid Chemistry in Biomass Burning Plumes (435848)
Loredana G Suciu1, Robert J Griffin1, Caroline A Masiello2, Quazi Ziaur Rasool3 and Daniel S Cohan4, (1)Rice University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States, (4)Rice University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States
Multi-sensor view of the Stratospheric Carbonaceous Aerosol Layer from 2017 Boreal Fires in Canada (414510)
Zhong Chen1, Omar Torres2, Pawan K Bhartia2, David E Flittner3, Ghassan Taha4 and Kevin Leavor1, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Morgan State University, NASA/code 614, Baltimore, MD, United States
Characterization of Wildfire Emissions in California: Analysis of Airborne Measurements of Trace Gases from 2013 to 2016 (356640)
Caroline Parworth1, Josette Elizabeth Marrero1, Emma L Yates1, Ju-Mee Ryoo2 and Laura T Iraci3, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center/Science and Technology Corporation, Moffett Field, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
Actinic Flux and Photolysis Rate Measurements on the NSF/NCAR C130 during the WE-CAN Campaign (386153)
Kirk Ullmann, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Samuel R Hall, NCAR, Denver, United States and Sasha Madronich, Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Leveraging the Data and Network of the Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption and Nitrogen (WE-CAN) (426920)
Emily V Fischer1, Jeffrey Lee Collett Jr1, Amy Sullivan1, Paul J DeMott1, Susan C van den Heever2, Russ S Schumacher3, Shane M Murphy4, Joel A Thornton5, Lu Hu6, Frank M Flocke7, Prof. Darin W Toohey, PhD8, Cynthia H. Twohy9, Sonia M Kreidenweis1 and Delphine Farmer10, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Science, Laramie, WY, United States, (5)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, (6)Univ of MN-Soil, Water, & Clim, St. Paul, United States, (7)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (8)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (10)Colorado State University, Department of Chemistry, Fort Collins, United States
We Didn’t Start The Fire? Limitations of Northern High Latitude Satellite- and Geospatial Data-Based Arctic Wildland Fire Monitoring and Emissions Estimations for the 2017 Wildfire in Greenland (442112)
Jessica McCarty, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States and Justin J Fain, Geospatial Analysis Center, Department of Geography, Miami University, Oxford, United States
CALIPSO-derived Biomass Burning Smoke Plume Height: 2006 Tripod Fire, WA and 2013 RIM Fire, CA (448574)
Hyundeok Choi, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, Amber Jeanine Soja, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, United States, Thomas Duncan Fairlie, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, George Pouliot, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Durham, United States and Kirk R Baker, Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
VERIFYING TRANSPORT AND DISPERSION MODEL OUTPUT OF FIRES USING RADAR DATA (449287)
Jonathan M Vogel, Applied Research Associates, Capital Area Division, Alexandria, VA, United States
Automatic Fire Detection Using Carbon Monoxide Emissions (453584)
Jebidiah Thomas Jeffery, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Juying X Warner, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States and Zigang Wei, IMSG, College Park, United States
Climatic and Topographic Effect on Wildfire Burn Severity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (467203)
Caroline Ann Cabeza, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Erica A H Smithwick, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States
Emission and chemistry of volatile organic compounds from western U.S. wildfires: New constraints from airborne measurements during the 2018 WE-CAN campaign (424445)
Lu Hu1, Wade Permar2, Catherine Wielgasz1 and Emily Fischer3, (1)University of Montana, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Missoula, United States, (2)University of Montana, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Missoula, MT, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
​Characterizing Brown Carbon in Northern High Latitudes (425939)
Ragen Davey, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Chemistry and Biochemistry & Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, James Campbell, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Jingqiu Mao, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Impact of wildfires on atmospheric aerosol loading and regional climate over the Contiguous United States (434455)
Kyu-Myong Kim1, William K-M Lau2, Arlindo daSilva3, Ravi Govindaraju4, Anton Darmenov3 and Charles M Ichoku5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States
Potential causes for increased wildfire activity over North America in recent three decades (437331)
Lei Zhang, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, William K-M Lau, U. of Maryland, College Park, United States and Zhanqing Li, Univ of Maryland College Park, AOSC, College Park, United States
Investigation of Diabatic Plume Rise Using CALIPSO and Additional Satellite Data with Models (439418)
Michael D Fromm, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and George P Kablick, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States
Machine learning of the relationships between environment and climate variables and wildfire occurrences, and prediction of wildfires over Siberian region (355554)
Dr. Teppei J Yasunari, PhD1, Ichigaku Takigawa2, Kyu-Myong Kim3 and Arlindo da SIlva3, (1)Hokkaido University, Arctic Research Center, Sapporo, Japan, (2)Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Sapporo, Japan, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Simulations of Wildland Fire Smoke PM25 in the NWS Air Quality Forecasting System (375203)
Ho-Chun Huang1,2, Jeffrey McQueen3, Perry Shafran4,5, Jian-Ping Huang1,2, Li Pan6, John S Kain7, Youhua Tang8,9, Pius Lee10, Ivanka Stajner11 and Jose tirado-Delgado12, (1)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, United States, (2)IMSG, College Park, United States, (3)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (4)SAIC, Reston, United States, (5)IMSG, College Park, MD, United States, (6)SAIC/Lynker at NCEP/NWS/EMC/NOAA, College Park, United States, (7)National Weather Center, College Park, MD, United States, (8)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States, (9)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (10)NOAA, Air Resources Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NOAA National Weather Service, Boulder, United States, (12)NOAA/NWS/STI, Silver Spring, United States
Satellite-based observations of formaldehyde (HCHO) in wildfire plumes (375863)
Yan Zhang, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, MD, United States, Can Li, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, Sergey V Marchenko, SSAI, Lanham, United States, Nickolay Anatoly Krotkov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Joanna Joiner, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Jin Liao, Universities Space Research Association and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Qing Liang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chemistry-Climate Links for Carbon Monoxide in Northern Hemisphere Boreal Fire Regions and an Assessment of Global Fire Inventories (379987)
Rebecca R Buchholz, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Helen Marie Worden, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder, CO, United States, Dorit Hammerling, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Benjamin Gaubert, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder,CO, United States, Louisa K Emmons, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder, United States and Christine Wiedinmyer, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Satellite-Based Daily PM2.5 Estimates During Fire Seasons in Colorado (380222)
Guannan Geng1, Nancy L Murray2, Daniel Tong3, Joshua S Fu4, Xuefei Hu5, Pius Lee6, Xia Meng5, Howard H. Chang7 and Yang Liu8, (1)Emory University, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Emory University, Atlanta, United States, (3)NOAA College Park, NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Tennessee, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Knoxville, United States, (5)Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States, (6)NOAA, Air Resources Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Emory University, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Atlanta, GA, United States, (8)Emory University, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, United States
Wildfire impact on environment thermodynamics and severe convective storms (397140)
Yuwei Zhang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Jiwen Fan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States and Timothy Logan, Texas A & M University College Station, Atmospheric Science, College Station, United States
Global climate change driven by soot ejection following the asteroid impact as the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs (406873)
Naga Oshima1, Kunio Kaiho2, Kouji Adachi1, Yukimasa Adachi3, Takuya Mizukami2, Megumu Fujibayashi4 and Ryosuke Saito2, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (3)Meteorological Research Inst., Tsukuba, Japan, (4)Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan
Potential Local to Regional Scale Impacts from Wildfire Re-emission of Hypothetical Radiological Contamination Incidents (407250)
Kirk R Baker1, Sang Don Lee2, Paul Lemieux2, Scott Hudson3, Wei Min Hao4, Stephen P Baker5 and Emily Lincoln5, (1)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (2)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Durham, United States, (3)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, United States, (4)USFS Fire Missoula Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT, United States, (5)USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT, United States
Probing Extreme Fire and Volcanic-Eruptive Plumes with Satellite Remote Sensing (408504)
Ralph A Kahn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Verity J. B. Flower, Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI, United States, James Limbacher, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States and Katherine Teresa Junghenn, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States
Monitoring Global Wildfire Emissions from Fire Danger to Atmospheric Composition (410292)
Mark Parrington1, Francesca Di Giuseppe1, Claudia Vitolo1, Melanie Ades1, Anna Agusti-panareda1, Jerome Barre1, Richard J Engelen1, Johannes Flemming2, Antje Inness1, Zak Kipling1, Vincent-Henri Peuch1, Imke Hueser3 and Johannes W. Kaiser3, (1)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, RG2 9AX UK, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

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