Radiative impact of record-breaking wildfires from integrated ground-based data.

ABSTRACT: The radiative effects of wildfires have been traditionally estimated by models using radiative transfer calculations. Assessment of model-predicted radiative effects commonly involves information on observation-based aerosol optical properties. However, lack or incompleteness of this information for dense plumes generated by intense wildfires reduces substantially the applicability of this assessment. Here we introduce a novel method that provides additional observational constraints for such assessments using widely available ground-based measurements of shortwave and spectrally resolved irradiances and aerosol optical depth (AOD) in the visible and near-infrared spectral ranges. We apply our method to quantify the radiative impact of the record-breaking wildfires that occurred in the Wes

SUBMITTER: Kassianov E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11894053 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature