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Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
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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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.
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