Seminar
Effects of Siberian forest fires on regional air quality and meteorology
Rokjin Park, NOAA ESRL CSD & CU CIRES
Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 3:30 pm Mountain Time
DSRC 2A305
Abstract
Wildfires are an important source for trace gases and aerosols in the atmosphere. In particular, forest fires in Siberia occur every spring and affect air quality in East Asia. In this talk, I speak about the impacts of fire aerosols on regional air quality degradation in May 2003 when one of the biggest wildfire occurred. In addition, I also present the effect of fire aerosols on regional meteorology using both reanalysis data and global model simulations, which in turn affected regional O3 concentrations in the context of chemistry-climate interaction.
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