Biomass Burning Aerosols
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerosols".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (21 April 2022) | Viewed by 3835
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomass-burning aerosols emitted from wildfires greatly impact the global climate by scattering and absorbing solar radiation and functioning as cloud condensation nuclei and ice nuclei. Recently, the occurrence frequencies and intensities of wildfires significantly increase because of global warming. Some pyro-convection systems even lifted the biomass-burning aerosols to the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, exerting long-lived radiative effects. Despite the importance, large biases exist in the representation of biomass-burning aerosols’ emissions, injection heights, and microphysical and radiative properties in the numerical models. These biases eventually translate to large uncertainties in the estimation of biomass-burning aerosols’ radiative effects.
This Special Issue focuses on the measurement of the microphysical and radiative properties of biomass-burning aerosols, as well as modeling of the emission, transport, and climatic effects of biomass burning cross different spatiotemporal resolutions. Using novel approaches, such as machine learning/deep learning techniques, for predicting future biomass burning emissions and injection height is strongly encouraged. Long-term remote sensing analyses on the characteristics of biomass-burning aerosols and wildfires, such as absorbing AOD, burned area, and fire radiative power, are also welcomed.
Dr. Zheng Lu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomass burning aerosols
- wildfires
- aerosol-radiation interaction
- aerosol-cloud interaction
- numerical models
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