Wildfire smoke-plume rise: a simple energy balance parameterization

Evaluation and Improvement of Smoke Plume Rise Models

Sensitivity of air quality simulation to smoke plume rise

Plume rise is the height smoke plumes can reach. This information is needed by air quality models such as the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model to simulate physical and chemical processes of point-source fire emissions. This study seeks to understand the importance of plume rise to CMAQ air quality simulation of prescribed burning to plume rise. CMAQ simulations are compared between...

Hot Towers Formation – a Simple Plume Rise Model

Hurricane intensification has been studied by scientists for decades and one phenomenon that appears to always accompany the intensification is the presence of hot towers of cumulous clouds that stretches to 15 km high, touching the top of the troposphere (Figure 1a &b). The hypothesis of Hot towers was first proposed in 1958 by Riehl and Malkus (Anthes, 1999), who wrote in conclusion from thei...

Modeling Smoke Plume-Rise and Dispersion from Southern United States Prescribed Burns with Daysmoke

We present Daysmoke, an empirical-statistical plume rise and dispersion model for simulating smoke from prescribed burns. Prescribed fires are characterized by complex plume structure including multiple-core updrafts which makes modeling with simple plume models difficult. Daysmoke accounts for plume structure in a three-dimensional veering/sheering atmospheric environment, multiple-core updraf...

Space-based observational constraints for 1-D fire smoke plume-rise models

[1] We use a plume height climatology derived from space-based Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) observations to evaluate the performance of a widely used plume-rise model. We initialize the model with assimilated meteorological fields from the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System and estimated fuel moisture content at the location and time of the MISR measurements. Fire properties tha...