A conceptual model for the link between Central American biomass burning aerosols and severe weather over the south central United States

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Jun ^a,b,c   Van Den Heever, Susan C ^d   Reid, Jeffrey S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BELT CONVEYORS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; LIGHTNING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SMOKE; TROPICS;

AEROSOL TRANSPORT MODEL; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; CLOUD RESOLVING SIMULATIONS; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; WARM CONVEYOR BELTS; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

SMOKE ABATEMENT;

EID: 67650224399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/1/015003     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Albrecht B A 1989 Aerosols, cloud microphysics, and fractional cloudiness Science 245 1227-30 (Pubitemid 20402204)
2. Andreae M O, Rosenfeld D, Artaxo P, Costa A A, Frank G P, Longo K M and Silva-Dia M A F 2004 Smoking rain clouds over the Amazon Science 303 1337-41
3. Andreae M O and Rosenfeld D 2008 Aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions. Part 1. The nature and sources of cloud-active aerosols Earth-Sci. Rev. 89 13-41
4. Bell T L, Rosenfeld D, Kim K-M, Yoo J-M, Lee M-I and Hahnenberger M 2008 Midweek increase in US summer rain and storm heights suggests air pollution invigorates rainstorms J. Geophys. Res. 113 D02209
5. Cotton W R et al 2003 RAMS 2001: current status and future directions Meteorol. Atmos. Phys. 82 5-29 (Pubitemid 37450343)
6. IPCC 2007 Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment. Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ed S Solomon, D Qin, M Manning, Z Chen, M Marquis, K B Averyt, M Tignor and H L Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p996
7. Feingold G, Remer L A, Ramaprasad J and Kaufman Y J 2001 Analysis of smoke impact on clouds in Brazilian biomass burning regions: an extension of Twomey's approach J. Geophys. Res. 106 22907-22
8. Kauffman J B, Steele M D, Cummings D L and Jaramillo V J 2003 Biomass dynamics associated with deforestation, fire, and conversion to cattle pasture in a Mexican tropical dry forest Forest Ecol. Manag. 176 1-12 (Pubitemid 36224677)
9. Kaufman Y J, Koren I, Remer L A, Rosenfeld D and Rudich Y 2005 The effect of smoke, dust, and pollution aerosol on shallow cloud development over the Atlantic Ocean Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 102 11207-12 (Pubitemid 41153799)
10. Koren I, Kaufman Y J, Remer L A and Martins J V 2004 Measurement of the effect of Amazon smoke on inhabitation of cloud formation Science 303 1342-5 (Pubitemid 38269421)
11. Levinson D H and Waple A M (ed) 2004 State of the climate in 2003 Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 85 S1-72
12. Lin J C, Matsui T, Pielke R A Sr and Kummerow C 2006 Effects of biomass-burning-derived aerosols on precipitation and clouds in the Amazon Basin: a satellite-based empirical study J. Geophys. Res. 111 D19204
13. Lyons W A, Nelson T E, Williams E R, Crarmer J A and Turner T R 1998 Enhanced positive cloud-to-ground lightning in thunderstorms ingesting smoke from fires Science 282 77-80 (Pubitemid 28471129)
14. Murray N D, Orville R E and Huffines G R 2000 Effect of pollution from Central American fires on cloud-to-ground lightning in May 1998 Geophys. Res. Lett. 27 2249-52 (Pubitemid 32040350)
15. Peppler R A et al 2000 ARM southern great plains site observations of the smoke pall associated with the 1998 Central American fires Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 81 2563-92
16. Pruppacher H R and Klett J D 2003 Miscrophysics of Clouds and Precipitation (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic)
17. Reid J S, Prins E M, Westphal D L, Schmidt C C, Richardson K A, Christopher S A, Eck T F, Reid E A, Curtis C A and Hoffman J P 2004 Real-time monitoring of South American smoke particle emissions and transport using a coupled remote sensing/box-model approach Geophys. Res. Lett. 31 L06107
18. Reid J S, Hobbs P V, Ferek R J, Blake D R, Martins J V, Dunlap M R and Liousse C 1998 Physical, chemical, and optical properties of regional hazes dominated by smoke in Brazil J. Geophys. Res. 103 32059-80 (Pubitemid 128665622)
19. Reid J S, Koppmann R, Eck T and Eluterio D 2005 A review of biomass burning emissions part II: intensive physical properties of biomass burning particles Atmos. Chem. Phys. 5 799-825 (Pubitemid 40479142)
20. Rogers C M and Bowman K P 2001 Transport of smoke from the Central American fires of 1998 J. Geophys. Res. 106 28357-68
21. Rosenfeld D 1999 TRMM observed first direct evidence of smoke from forest fires inhibiting rainfall Geophys. Res. Lett. 26 3105-8 (Pubitemid 30059623)
22. Twomey S 1974 Pollution and the planetary albedo Atmos. Environ. 8 1251-6
23. van den Heever S C, Carrio G G, Cotton W R, DeMott P J and Prenni A J 2006 Impacts of nucleating aerosol on Florida storms. Part I: mesoscale simulations J. Atmos. Sci. 1752-75 (Pubitemid 44184025)
24. van den Heever S C and Cotton W R 2004 The impact of hail size on simulated supercell storms J. Atmos. Sci. 61 1596-609 (Pubitemid 39052234)
25. van den Heever S C and Cotton W R 2007 Urban aerosol impacts on downwind convective storms J. Atmos. Sci. 46 828-50
26. Wang J and Christopher S A 2006 Mesoscale modeling of Central American smoke transport to the United States, part II: smoke radiative impact on regional surface energy budget and boundary layer process J. Geophys. Res. 111 D14S92
27. Wang J, Christopher S A, Nair U S, Reid J S, Prins E M, Szykman J and Hand J L 2006 Mesoscale modeling of Central American smoke transport to the United States, part I: 'top-down' assessment of emission strength and diurnal variation impact J. Geophys. Res. 111 D05S17