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CAPE-K�Summer School

Wildfires during CAPE-K

a unique insight to chemical composition of smoke from Australian forest fires

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Clare

Salvatore

Prashasti

Ida

Luke

Deepa

Hasan

Chemical composition defined by emission factors/ratios and aerosol characteristics

Credits: Alamy

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  • Accomplishments
    • Identified a large wildfire smoke event late on May 7th 2024
    • Found large peak values in CO, black carbon and many VOCs at this time
    • Found source of fires using VIRS and fire counts
    • Run HYSPLIT back trajectories
  • Plans for 06 February 2025
    • Look at Doppler LIDAR data
    • Look at MPL data
    • Get Composition data into single data frame
    • Plot CO vs CO2, CH4 vs CO2 and many others vs CO
    • If possible work towards emission factor calculations

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What was on yesterday……

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Timeseries

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AE33

Black Carbon

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AE33

Black Carbon

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CPC 3772

CPC3776

AE33 - eBC

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AE33 - eBC

Radon level

Synoptic met

to understand if the baseline conditions existed we checked the Radon level

a high pressure area dominated the air masses in the SO

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MPSS

Aerosol Size distribution

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Fires of May 7, 2024

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Doppler Lidar

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Plume 1: From Corinna Fire EF =97 g/kg of dry fuel

Plume 2: From Togari Fire Ef=76g/kg of dry fuel

Plume 3: From Christmas Hill Fire 112 g/kg of dry fuel

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CAPE-K�Summer School 2025

Team Wildfires

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Thank you

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