Articles | Volume 15, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7155-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7155-2015
Research article
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01 Jul 2015
Research article |  | 01 Jul 2015

Fire emission heights in the climate system – Part 1: Global plume height patterns simulated by ECHAM6-HAM2

A. Veira, S. Kloster, S. Wilkenskjeld, and S. Remy

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Short summary
We discuss the representation of wildfire emission heights in global climate models. Our implementation of a simple, semi-empirical plume height parametrization in the aerosol-climate model ECHAM6-HAM2 shows reasonable agreement with observations and with a more complex plume rise model. In contrast, prescribed emission heights, which do not consider the intensity of individual fires, fail to adequately simulate global plume height patterns. Diurnal and seasonal cycles are of minor importance.
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