Sensitivity of mesoscale modeling of smoke direct radiative effect to the emission inventory: a case study in northern sub-Saharan African region

An ensemble approach is used to examine the sensitivity of smoke loading and smoke direct radiative effect in the atmosphere to uncertainties in smoke emission estimates. Seven different fire emission inventories are applied independently to WRF-Chem model (v3.5) with the same model configuration (e...

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Published in:	Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors:	Feng Zhang, Jun Wang, Charles Ichoku, Edward J Hyer, Zhifeng Yang, Cui Ge, Shenjian Su, Xiaoyang Zhang, Shobha Kondragunta, Johannes W Kaiser, Christine Wiedinmyer, Arlindo da Silva
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Subjects:	fire emission inventory Sahel and northern sub-Saharan African region smoke radiative effect mesoscale modeling air quality
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075002