Project information
Project aim
We investigate the impact of Black Saturday Australian bushfire in 2009 on the atmosphere above Australia and in the southern hemisphere in general, including Antarctica. Using high quality measurements collected by modern satellite and ground-based instruments, we study vertical and horizontal motion of the smoke plume, chemical composition of this plume, and chemical reactions between various molecules in the plume and other atmospheric gases. We want to answer an important question on how the bushfire plume may interact with the ozone molecules and whether it adds to the depletion of the protective ozone layer above Australia and above Antarctica.
Related publications
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The Antarctic ozone hole during 2008 and 2009. Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal, 2011
(Ref: 14363)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Future Antarctic ozone recovery rates in September–December predicted by CCMVal-2 model simulations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 2012
(Ref: 14784)
Category 3: Article
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Trends in the zonal asymmetry of Antarctic stratospheric ozone. Greenhouse 2011: The Science of Climate Change, Cairns, Australia, 4-8 April, 2011
(Ref: 14411)
Category 3: Poster
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UTLS hydration from the smoke plume from the 2009 Australian Black Saturday bushfire. 2010 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 13-17 December 2010, San Francisco, 2010
(Ref: 14317)
Category 3: Poster
resulted in devastating bushfires igniting in south-eastern Australia. As a result, a significant amount of smoke aerosols was injected into the upper troposphere-lower stratosphere (UTLS) region. Its properties, in particular H2O enhancement inside the smoke plume…