Tracing devastating fires in Portugal to a snow  archive in the Swiss Alps: a case study

Osmont, Dimitri; Brugger, Sandra; Gilgen, Anina; Weber, Helga; Sigl, Michael; Modini, Robin L.; Schwörer, Christoph; Tinner, Willy; Wunderle, Stefan; Schwikowski, Margit

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3731-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 11

The Cryosphere, 14, 3731–3745, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3731-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

The Cryosphere, 14, 3731–3745, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3731-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 11

Research article 05 Nov 2020

Research article | 05 Nov 2020

Tracing devastating fires in Portugal to a snow archive in the Swiss Alps: a case study

Dimitri Osmont et al.

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SC1: 'Tracing devastating fires in Portugal to a snow archive in the Swiss Alps: a case study', Paulo Fernandes, 06 Mar 2020
- AC2: 'Response to the comment of Paulo Fernandes', Margit Schwikowski, 03 Jul 2020
RC1: 'Ref comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Mar 2020
- AC1: 'Response to the comment of referee 1', Margit Schwikowski, 03 Jul 2020
RC2: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Apr 2020
- AC3: 'Response to the comment of referee 2', Margit Schwikowski, 03 Jul 2020

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (06 Jul 2020) by Joel Savarino

AR by Svenja Lange on behalf of the Authors (31 Jul 2020) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (11 Aug 2020) by Joel Savarino

AR by Margit Schwikowski on behalf of the Authors (18 Aug 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

In this interdisciplinary case study, we were able to link biomass burning emissions from the June 2017 wildfires in Portugal to their deposition in the snowpack at Jungfraujoch, Swiss Alps. We analysed black carbon and charcoal in the snowpack, calculated backward trajectories, and monitored the fire evolution by remote sensing. Such case studies help to understand the representativity of biomass burning records in ice cores and how biomass burning tracers are archived in the snowpack.