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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6289-2018
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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21 Nov 2018
Research article |
| 21 Nov 2018
| 21 Nov 2018
The impact of MISR-derived injection height initialization on wildfire and volcanic plume dispersion in the HYSPLIT model
Charles J. Vernon
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Department, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Ryan Bolt
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Department, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Timothy Canty
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Department, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Ralph A. Kahn
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD
20771, USA
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Department, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Interpreting the volcanological processes of Kamchatka, based on multi-sensor satellite observations V. Flower & R. Kahn
- Global Wildfire Plume‐Rise Data Set and Parameterizations for Climate Model Applications Z. Ke et al.
- Impacts of estimated plume rise on PM2.5 exceedance prediction during extreme wildfire events: a comparison of three schemes (Briggs, Freitas, and Sofiev) Y. Li et al.
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Short summary
The height that aerosols are injected into the atmosphere can significantly impact the dispersion of aerosol plumes. We use direct observations from the MISR instrument to determine aerosol injection height and constrain the HYSPLIT Dispersion model with these data. We have shown that the nominal plume-rise calculation within HYSPLIT tends to underestimate injection heights of wildfires and that simulations constrained with MISR injection height can show better agreement with MODIS observations.
The height that aerosols are injected into the atmosphere can significantly impact the...
