A24E:
Extreme Wildfires and Smoke Plumes: Past, Present, and Future II
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Session ID#: 58350
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: Peter Richard Colarco, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Michael D Fromm, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison: Michael D Fromm, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Ravan Ahmadov, NOAA/ESRL, Global Systems Division, Boulder, CO, United States; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Eric James, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, Georg A Grell, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Curtis Alexander, NOAA/GSL, Boulder, United States, Joseph Olson, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, Ka Yee Wong, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States, Steven C Albers, NOAA, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, Stuart A McKeen, NOAA ESRL/CSL and CU Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Gabriel Pereira, Federal University of São João Del Rei, São João Del Rei, Brazil, Saulo R Freitas, National Institute for Space Research, San Jose Dos Campos, Brazil, Ivan Andras Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, United States, Marina Tsidulko, IMSG (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), College Park, MD, United States, William C. Straka, University of Wisconsin Madison, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, United States, Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, United States and Stan Benjamin, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Hyun C Kim, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Tianfeng Chai, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States, Ariel F Stein, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States and Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, United States
Kenneth Edward Christian, University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering & Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA, United States, Jun Wang, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, David A Peterson, Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States and Edward J Hyer, Harvard-Smithsonian CFA, Cambridge, United States
Robert D Field, Columbia University of New York, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Palisades, NY, United States, Kostas Tsigaridis, Columbia University, New York, United States, Ming Luo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Susanne Bauer, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, Gregory Elsaesser, Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, United States and Keren Mezuman, Columbia University in the City of New York, Center for Climate Systems Research, Palisades, United States
Janice Coen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Louis Giglio, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jonathan A Greenberg, University of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, United States, Wilfrid Schroeder, NOAA, NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations, College Park, MD, United States and Brad Quayle, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States
David P Edwards, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Benjamin Gaubert, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder,CO, United States, Jerome Barré, European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom and Helen Marie Worden, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder, CO, United States
Pengfei Yu, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Owen B Toon, Univ Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Charles Bardeen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Yunqian Zhu, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Robert W Portmann, Retired, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Troy D Thornberry, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Sean M Davis, University of Colorado / CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Eric T Wolf, University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States, Karen Hepler Rosenlof, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, United States, David A Peterson, Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States, Michael D Fromm, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Alan Robock, Rutgers University, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, United States
