UW Researchers Find Wildfire Smoke is More Cooling on Climate Than Computer Models Assume

[rangerrebew]

UW Researchers Find Wildfire Smoke is More Cooling on Climate Than Computer Models Assume
12 hours ago
Charles Rotter
 

From University of Wyoming

January 12, 2021
The UW Mobile Lab measures biomass burning smoke in Wyoming from a couple of years ago. This is an example of the type of field measurement that was used to compare with the computer models. Hunter Brown, a recent UW Ph.D. graduate in atmospheric science, was the lead author of a paper that revealed that smoke from wildfires has more of a cooling effect on the atmosphere than computer models assume. (Rachel Edie Photo)

A study of biomass burning aerosols led by University of Wyoming researchers revealed that smoke from wildfires has more of a cooling effect on the atmosphere than computer models assume.

“The study addresses the impact of wildfires on global climate, and we extensively used the NCAR-Wyoming supercomputer (Cheyenne),” says Shane Murphy, a UW associate professor of atmospheric science. “Also, the paper used observations from UW and other teams around the world to compare to the climate model results. The main conclusion of the work is that wildfire smoke is more cooling than current models assume.”

Murphy was a contributing author of a paper, titled “Biomass Burning Aerosols in Most Climate Models Are Too Absorbing,” that was published Jan. 12 (today) in Nature Communications, an open-access journal that publishes high-quality research from all areas of the natural sciences. Papers published by the journal represent important advances of significance to specialists within each field.
 
 https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/01/12/uw-researchers-find-wildfire-smoke-is-more-cooling-on-climate-than-computer-models-assume/

[rangerrebew]

Oh goody!  Someone has found how California wild fires are actually helping cool the planet.  Let's hurry and burn all the forests so Greta Thunberg can stop thinking the world is going to burn up in 8 years and move on to something else.

[thackney]

Quick, let California, Colorado and others start back up their wood fireplaces and stoves.

[dfwgator]

Hmmm that means fires from rioting help against Global Warming.