@Article{FreireLFCMMSR:2020:WhExBi,
               author = "Freire, Julliana Larise Mendon{\c{c}}a and Longo, Karla Maria and 
                         Freitas, Saulo Ribeiro de and Coelho, Caio Augusto dos Santos and 
                         Molod, Andrea M. and Marshak, Jelena and Silva, Arlindo da and 
                         Ribeiro, Bruno Z.",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and 
                         {Universities Space Research Association} and {Universities Space 
                         Research Association} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and {NASA Goddard Space Flight Center} and {NASA 
                         Goddard Space Flight Center} and {NASA Goddard Space Flight 
                         Center} and {University at Albany}",
                title = "To what extent biomass burning aerosols impact South America 
                         seasonal climate predictions?",
              journal = "Geophysical Research Letters",
                 year = "2020",
               volume = "47",
               number = "16",
                pages = "e2020GL088096",
                month = "Aug.",
             abstract = "We applied the Goddard Earth Observing System for subseasonal to 
                         seasonal climate prediction to assess the impact of inclusion 
                         biomass burning (BB) aerosols over South America (SA) during the 
                         austral winter. We also evaluated the model sensitivity to the BB 
                         emissions prescription using no emissions, monthly climatological, 
                         and daily emissions. Each hindcast consisted of four members 
                         running from June to November of each year between 2000 and 2015. 
                         Our results indicated that interactive BB aerosols improve the 
                         seasonal climate prediction performance over SA. More realistic 
                         daily based emissions significantly further improve the 
                         performance in comparison with the climatological ones. Therefore, 
                         improvements in the BB emissions representation are urged to 
                         represent the aerosol impacts on seasonal climate prediction 
                         performance adequately. Plain Language Summary Vegetation fires 
                         severely affect tropical forest and savannah\‐type biomes 
                         in South America (SA) during winter in Southern Hemisphere. 
                         Biomass burning (BB) aerosols are important agents changing energy 
                         budget and clouds. This study focused on assessing whether 
                         including aerosol\‐radiation\‐cloud interaction in a 
                         climate model, particularly the contribution of BB aerosols, can 
                         provide additional information for improving seasonal climate 
                         predictions. This study has two primary outcomes. First, that 
                         including BB aerosols does improve the model's ability to 
                         predicted precipitation and near\‐surface temperature in 
                         SA. Second, it proved it is indeed essential to improve BB 
                         emissions representation to further elevate seasonal climate 
                         prediction performance.",
                  doi = "10.1029/2020GL088096",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088096",
                 issn = "0094-8276",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "freire_to wha.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "28 abr. 2024"
}