Articles | Volume 20, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2073-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2073-2020
Research article
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26 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 26 Feb 2020

How emissions uncertainty influences the distribution and radiative impacts of smoke from fires in North America

Therese S. Carter, Colette L. Heald, Jose L. Jimenez, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Yutaka Kondo, Nobuhiro Moteki, Joshua P. Schwarz, Christine Wiedinmyer, Anton S. Darmenov, Arlindo M. da Silva, and Johannes W. Kaiser

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Fires and the smoke they emit impact air quality, health, and climate, but the abundance and properties of smoke remain uncertain and poorly constrained. To explore this, we compare model simulations driven by four commonly-used fire emission inventories with surface, aloft, and satellite observations. We show that across inventories smoke emissions differ by factors of 4 to 7 over North America, challenging our ability to accurately characterize the impact of smoke on air quality and climate.
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