Trajectory Data Set from the study on the 2017 BC wildfire detection
Introduction
This data repository provides access to the trajectory data calculated for the study by Hooghiem et al. in Atmos Chem. Phys. (2020). In this study, wildfire-influenced airmasses were found in AirCore measurements over Sodankylä (Finland) that could be traced back to a wildfire in British Columbia (Canada) in August 2017. For this effort, back trajectories from the observations were calculated by the trajectory module of CLaMS. As the additional vertical velocity component caused by diabatic heating due to the smoke is not included in CLaMS, the simulation was performed piece-wise. The vertical displacement was determined from a Match with subsequent CALIOP satellite observations of the exhaust plume.
Piecewise back-trajectory locations with vertical adjustments (green)
at CALIOP observation locations (left) and trajectory locations (pink)
at the time of an OMPS satellite observation of the smoke cloud (right).
Image: Fig. 3 of Hooghiem et al. (2020).
Data access
The data set provided on this web site is taken from the model CLaMS. The data set contains the locations for the 3 steps The file format is NetCDF that is described here. Note that these are non-operational research data products, which have been made available to other scientists and the general public.
| Step | Trajectory Start | Data |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Observation on 5 Sep | download |
| 1 | Observation on 4 Sep | download |
| 2 | CALIOP Match on 3 Sep | download |
| 3 | CALIOP Match on 20 Aug | download |
Legal notes
The data sets provided on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You are free to share the material in any medium or format and adapt it for any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. The data are distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty. Please follow the link to see the terms and conditions of the license:
We kindly ask to contact the authors, if you use these data.
Reference
Citation, if the data are used in publications:
Hooghiem, Joram J. D., Maria Elena Popa, Thomas Röckmann, Jens-Uwe Grooß, Ines Tritscher, Rolf Müller, Rigel Kivi, and Huilin Chen, Wildfire smoke in the lower stratosphere identified by in situ CO observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 13985-14003 doi: 10.5194/acp-20-13985-2020, 2020. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 2020.
Contact
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions:
Prof. Huilin Chen
Energy and Sustainability Institute Groningen (ESRIG)
University of Groningen
9747 AG Groningen
The Netherlands
e-mail: huilin.chen@rug.nl
Dr. Jens-Uwe Grooß
Institut für Energie- und Klimaforschung, IEK-7
Forschungszentrum Jülich
52425 Jülich
Germany
e-mail: j.-u.grooss@fz-juelich.de
