Variations in aerosol microphysical parameters of the surface air layer in the “ocean-continent” transitional zone

Russian National Report: Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

“…Paper [174] compares the periods of severe forest fire smoke on the European territory of Russia (5-9 August 2010) and in Western Siberia (27-31 July 2012), using ground-based and satellite-borne observations. With close mean regional АОТ values, the local AOT was larger in Western Siberia; a greater (by module) radiation aerosol forcing was observed in Siberia.…”

“…Variations of the characteristics of atmospheric aerosol due to forest fires have been investigated and discussed in [163][164][165][166][167][168][169][170][171][172][173][174][175][176][177][178][179][180]. In the central regions of Yakutia, during the peak phase of fire activity, the АОТ values were measured to have increased manifold compared with the peak background values, and burning products were found at a distance of up to 3 thousand kilometers from the fire source, according to [64,65].…”