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Title: Optical and Chemical Analysis of Absorption Enhancement by Mixed Carbonaceous Aerosols in the 2019 Woodbury, AZ, Fire Plume

Abstract

Wildfires emit mixtures of light-absorbing aerosols (including black and brown carbon, BC and BrC, respectively) and more purely scattering organic aerosol (OA). BC, BrC, and OA interactions are complex and dynamic and evolve with aging in the atmosphere resulting in large uncertainties in their radiative forcing. We report microphysical, optical, and chemical measurements of multiple plumes from the Woodbury Fire (AZ, USA) observed at Los Alamos, NM, after 11–18 hr of atmospheric transit. This includes periods where the plumes exhibited little entrainment as well as periods that had become more dilute after mixing with background aerosol. Aerosol mass absorption cross sections (MAC) were enhanced by a factor of 1.5–2.2 greater than bare BC at 870 nm, suggesting lensing by nonabsorbing coatings following a core-shell morphology. Larger MAC enhancement factors of 1.9–5.1 at 450 nm are greater than core-shell morphology can explain and are attributed to BrC. MAC of OA (MACOrg) at 450 nm was largest in intact portions of the plumes (peak value bounded between 0.6 and 0.9 m2/g [Org]) and decreased with plume dilution. We report a strong correlation between MACOrg(450 nm) with the fC2H4O2 (a tracer for levoglucosan-like species) of coatings and of bulk OA indicating that BrC in the Woodbury Fire was coemittedmore » with levoglucosan, a primary aerosol. fC2H4O2 and MACOrg(450 nm) are shown to vary between the edge and the core of plumes, demonstrating enhanced oxidation of OA and BrC bleaching near plume edges. Our process-level finding can inform parameterizations of mixed BC, BrC, and OA properties for wildfire plumes in climate models.« less

Authors:
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  1. Earth and Environmental SciencesLos Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos NM USA
  2. Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringNew Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro NM USA
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Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1646935
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1646937; OSTI ID: 1726186
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-20-20021
Journal ID: ISSN 2169-897X; e2020JD032399
Grant/Contract Number:  
F26500; 89233218CNA000001; 1832813; 20200035DR
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Journal Volume: 125 Journal Issue: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-897X
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Wildfire; aerosols; brown carbon; black carbon; absorption enhancement; chemistry

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Lee, James E., Dubey, Manvendra K., Aiken, Allison C., Chylek, Petr, and Carrico, Christian M. Optical and Chemical Analysis of Absorption Enhancement by Mixed Carbonaceous Aerosols in the 2019 Woodbury, AZ, Fire Plume. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1029/2020JD032399.
Lee, James E., Dubey, Manvendra K., Aiken, Allison C., Chylek, Petr, & Carrico, Christian M. Optical and Chemical Analysis of Absorption Enhancement by Mixed Carbonaceous Aerosols in the 2019 Woodbury, AZ, Fire Plume. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032399
Lee, James E., Dubey, Manvendra K., Aiken, Allison C., Chylek, Petr, and Carrico, Christian M. Mon . "Optical and Chemical Analysis of Absorption Enhancement by Mixed Carbonaceous Aerosols in the 2019 Woodbury, AZ, Fire Plume". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032399.
@article{osti_1646935,
title = {Optical and Chemical Analysis of Absorption Enhancement by Mixed Carbonaceous Aerosols in the 2019 Woodbury, AZ, Fire Plume},
author = {Lee, James E. and Dubey, Manvendra K. and Aiken, Allison C. and Chylek, Petr and Carrico, Christian M.},
abstractNote = {Wildfires emit mixtures of light-absorbing aerosols (including black and brown carbon, BC and BrC, respectively) and more purely scattering organic aerosol (OA). BC, BrC, and OA interactions are complex and dynamic and evolve with aging in the atmosphere resulting in large uncertainties in their radiative forcing. We report microphysical, optical, and chemical measurements of multiple plumes from the Woodbury Fire (AZ, USA) observed at Los Alamos, NM, after 11–18 hr of atmospheric transit. This includes periods where the plumes exhibited little entrainment as well as periods that had become more dilute after mixing with background aerosol. Aerosol mass absorption cross sections (MAC) were enhanced by a factor of 1.5–2.2 greater than bare BC at 870 nm, suggesting lensing by nonabsorbing coatings following a core-shell morphology. Larger MAC enhancement factors of 1.9–5.1 at 450 nm are greater than core-shell morphology can explain and are attributed to BrC. MAC of OA (MACOrg) at 450 nm was largest in intact portions of the plumes (peak value bounded between 0.6 and 0.9 m2/g [Org]) and decreased with plume dilution. We report a strong correlation between MACOrg(450 nm) with the fC2H4O2 (a tracer for levoglucosan-like species) of coatings and of bulk OA indicating that BrC in the Woodbury Fire was coemitted with levoglucosan, a primary aerosol. fC2H4O2 and MACOrg(450 nm) are shown to vary between the edge and the core of plumes, demonstrating enhanced oxidation of OA and BrC bleaching near plume edges. Our process-level finding can inform parameterizations of mixed BC, BrC, and OA properties for wildfire plumes in climate models.},
doi = {10.1029/2020JD032399},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres},
number = 15,
volume = 125,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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Limitations in the enhancement of visible light absorption due to mixing state
journal, January 2006

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A New Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (TOF-AMS)—Instrument Description and First Field Deployment
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Regional influence of wildfires on aerosol chemistry in the western US and insights into atmospheric aging of biomass burning organic aerosol
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Simultaneous aerosol mass spectrometry and chemical ionisation mass spectrometry measurements during a biomass burning event in the UK: insights into nitrate chemistry
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Aerosol single scattering albedo dependence on biomass combustion efficiency: Laboratory and field studies: SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO OF BB AEROSOL
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Effects of aging on organic aerosol from open biomass burning smoke in aircraft and laboratory studies
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Investigations of SP-AMS Carbon Ion Distributions as a Function of Refractory Black Carbon Particle Type
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