Karla Longo

TL;DR: Heavy smoke from forest fires in the Amazon was observed to reduce cloud droplet size and so delay the onset of precipitation, which affects the water cycle, the pollution burden of the atmosphere, and the dynamics of atmospheric circulation.

TL;DR: The smoke, clouds, and radiation-Brazil (SCAR-B) field project as mentioned in this paper has been used to study biomass burning, emphasizing measurements of surface biomass, fires, smoke aerosol and trace gases, clouds and radiation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe and evaluate a parameterization to include the vertical transport of hot gases and particles emitted from biomass burning in low-resolution atmospheric-chemistry transport models, which is simulated by embedding a 1D cloud-resolving model with appropriate lower boundary conditions in each column of the 3D host model.

TL;DR: This article found atmospheric layers with aged biomass smoke at altitudes >10 km over Suriname during LBA-CLAIRE-98 and estimated that 80-95% of accumulation mode aerosols had been removed during convective transport.

TL;DR: In this paper, the atmospheric transport of biomass burning emissions in the South American and African continents is monitored annually using a numerical simulation of air mass motions; they use a tracer transport capability developed within RAMS (Regional Atmospheric Modeling System) coupled to an emission model.