Significant Effective Radiative Forcing of Stratospheric Wildfire Smoke

Liu, Cheng‐Cheng; Portmann, Robert W.; Liu, Shang; Rosenlof, Karen H.; Peng, Yifeng; Yu, Pengfei

doi:10.1029/2022GL100175

Title: Significant Effective Radiative Forcing of Stratospheric Wildfire Smoke

Journal Article · 09 September 2022 · Geophysical Research Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100175 · OSTI ID:1886732

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School of Earth and Space Sciences University of Science and Technology of China Hefei China
Chemical Science Laboratory National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Boulder CO USA
School of Earth and Space Sciences University of Science and Technology of China Hefei China, Now at Research Division California Air Resources Board Sacramento CA USA
College of Atmospheric Sciences Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
Institute for Environmental and Climate Research Jinan University Guangzhou China

Abstract The radiative forcing (RF) of volcanic sulfate is well quantified. However, the RF of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) smoke with absorbing carbonaceous aerosols has not been considered in climate assessment reports. With the Community Earth System Model, we studied two record‐breaking wildfire events, the 2017 Pacific Northwest Event (PNE) and the 2019–2020 Australian New Year event (ANY), that perturbed stratospheric chemistry and the earth's radiation budget. We calculated a global annual‐mean effective RF (ERF) of −0.04 ± 0.02 and −0.17 ± 0.02 W/m ² at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) for PNE and ANY, respectively. The complexity of longwave RF led to an uncertainty of about 50% in the ERF at the TOA among climate models. We found that modeled ERF from wildfire smoke was 70%–270% more negative than the ERF of mass‐equivalent sulfate aerosol, highlighting its important role in the climate radiative budget.

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Journal Information:: Geophysical Research Letters, Journal Name: Geophysical Research Letters Journal Issue: 17 Vol. 49; ISSN 0094-8276

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