2013
DOI: 10.1071/wf11072
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Smoke plume height measurement of prescribed burns in the south-eastern United States

Abstract: Smoke plume height is important for modelling smoke transport and resulting effects on air quality. This study presents analyses of ceilometer measurements of smoke plume heights for twenty prescribed burns in the south-eastern United States. Measurements were conducted from mid-winter to early summer between 2009 and 2011. Approximately half of the burns were on tracts of land over 400ha (1000 acres) in area. Average smoke plume height was ~1km. Plume height trended upward from winter to summer. These results… Show more

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“…From the 40 Daysmoke outputs, the mean and the standard deviation of the plume heights and the downwind concentrations were calculated at 10-min intervals. Simulated plume heights were evaluated with plume height measurements from Vaisala CL31 backscatter ceilometer designed around laser LIDAR technology (Liu et al 2013). The ceilometer emits short, powerful laser pulses at a wavelength of 0.9 mm in a vertical or slant direction.…”
Section: Plume Heightmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From the 40 Daysmoke outputs, the mean and the standard deviation of the plume heights and the downwind concentrations were calculated at 10-min intervals. Simulated plume heights were evaluated with plume height measurements from Vaisala CL31 backscatter ceilometer designed around laser LIDAR technology (Liu et al 2013). The ceilometer emits short, powerful laser pulses at a wavelength of 0.9 mm in a vertical or slant direction.…”
Section: Plume Heightmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Small-scale radars, capable of filling in the coverage gap noted above, have the ability to observe smoke plumes close to the ground, where the intensity of the smoke and debris is greatest[15]. The development of small-scale weather radar networks in Australia can lead to an improvement in bushfire…”
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confidence: 95%
“…Although a reasonable performance of the plume models has been demonstrated for selected case studies on local or regional scales, the knowledge about smoke plume heights on a global scale is very limited due to a lack of observational data sets. Besides a small number of airborne in situ and ground-based remote-sensing studies, e.g., Melnikov et al (2008) or Liu et al (2013), satellite data sets provide observations of potentially global coverage. Although smoke plume measurement uncertainties are only ±200 m for well-constrained plumes Nelson et al, 2013), only a limited number of plumes are available on the global scale, because a partly manual analysis is required for each individual plume.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%