The Alberta smoke plume observation study

Anderson, Kerry; Pankratz, Al; Mooney, Curtis; Fleetham, Kelly

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-325-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-325-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-325-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

22 Feb 2018

| 22 Feb 2018

The Alberta smoke plume observation study

Kerry Anderson, Al Pankratz, Curtis Mooney, and Kelly Fleetham

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Final revised paper (published on 22 Feb 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 09 Oct 2017)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review comments for "The Alberta Smoke Plume Observation Study"', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Oct 2017
- AC1: 'Authors' response', Kerry Anderson, 22 Oct 2017
RC2: 'review of the paper "The Alberta Smoke Plume Observation Study"', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Nov 2017
- AC2: 'Author's response', Kerry Anderson, 16 Nov 2017
  - SC1: 'Revier's comment', Kerry Anderson, 30 Nov 2017

Short summary

A field project was conducted to measure smoke plumes from wildland fires in Alberta. This study used handheld inclinometers and photos taken at fire lookout towers. Observations of 222 plumes were collected from 2010 to 2015.

Unanticipated issues were uncovered including instrument limitations, environmental conditions, and subjectivity of observations. Despite these problems, the data set showed responses to fire behaviour conditions consistent with processes leading to plume rise.