The radiative and thermal effects of smoke aerosol over the region of Moscow during the summer fires of 2010 |
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| Authors: | I A Gorchakova I I Mokhov |
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| Institution: | 1.Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics,Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow,Russia |
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| Abstract: | The shortwave radiative forcings of smoke aerosol in the cloudless atmosphere during the summer fires of 2010 in European
Russia were quantitatively estimated for the land surface and the atmospheric upper boundary from measurement data obtained
at the Zvenigorod Scientific Station of the Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics (OIAP ZSS), Russian Academy of Sciences.
Variations in the temperature of the surface air layer due to the smoke-induced attenuation of incoming solar radiation were
estimated. The most intensive smoke generation in the atmosphere was observed on August 7–9, 2010, when the maximum aerosol
optical thickness amounted to more than 4.0 at a wavelength of 550 nm. In this case, the albedo of single aerosol scattering
amounted to ∼0.95–0.96 and the asymmetry factor amounted to ∼0.69–0.70. The maximum shortwave radiative forcing of aerosol
amounted to about −360 W/m2 for the land surface and almost −150 W/m2 for the atmospheric upper boundary. During the period of intensive smoke generation, the cooling of the atmospheric surface
layer over daylight hours (12 h) amounted, on average, to ∼6°C. The power character of the dependence of the shortwave radiative
forcing of aerosol for the land surface on aerosol optical thickness up to its values exceeding 4.0, which was revealed earlier
on the basis of data on aerosol optical thickness (up to 1.5) obtained at the OIAP ZSS during the summer forest and peatbog
fires of 2002 in the region of Moscow, was supported. |
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