Characterizing the Role of Moisture and Smoke on the 2021 Santa Coloma de Queralt Pyroconvective Event Using WRF‐Fire

Smoke from wildfires or burning biomass directly affects air quality and weather through modulating cloud microphysics and radiation. A simple wildfire emission coupling of black carbon (BC) and organic carbon (OC) with microphysics was implemented using the Weather Research and Forecasting model's fire module. A set of large-eddy simulations inspired by unique surface and upper atmospheric observations from the 2021 Santa Coloma de Queralt Fire (Spain) were conducted to investigate the influence of background conditions and interactions between atmospheric and fire processes such as fire smoke, ambient moisture, and latent heat release on the formation and evolution of pyroconvective clouds. While the microphysical impact of BC and OC emissions on the dynamics of fire behavior is minimal on short time scales (

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Main Authors:	Eghdami, Masih, Juliano, Timothy W., Jiménez, Pedro A., Kosovic, Branko, Castellnou, Marc, Kumar, Rajesh, Vila ‐ Guerau de Arellano, Jordi
Format:	Article/Letter to editor biblioteca
Language:	English
Subjects:	Life Science,
Online Access:	https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/characterizing-the-role-of-moisture-and-smoke-on-the-2021-santa-c
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