Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States

DA Jaffe, SM O'Neill, NK Larkin, AL Holder… - Journal of the Air & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Air quality impacts from wildfires have been dramatic in recent years, with millions of people
exposed to elevated and sometimes hazardous fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) …

Wildfire, smoke exposure, human health, and environmental justice need to be integrated into forest restoration and management

SM D'Evelyn, J Jung, E Alvarado… - Current environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United
States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a …

[HTML][HTML] Emission of trace gases and aerosols from biomass burning–an updated assessment

MO Andreae - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Since the publication of the compilation of biomass burning emission factors by Andreae
and Merlet (2001), a large number of studies have greatly expanded the amount of available …

The Fire Inventory from NCAR version 2.5: an updated global fire emissions model for climate and chemistry applications

C Wiedinmyer, Y Kimura… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
Abstract We present the Fire Inventory from National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR) version 2.5 (FINNv2. 5), a fire emissions inventory that provides publicly available …

Quantification of organic aerosol and brown carbon evolution in fresh wildfire plumes

BB Palm, Q Peng, CD Fredrickson… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The evolution of organic aerosol (OA) and brown carbon (BrC) in wildfire plumes, including
the relative contributions of primary versus secondary sources, has been uncertain in part …

Non-methane organic gas emissions from biomass burning: identification, quantification, and emission factors from PTR-ToF during the FIREX 2016 laboratory …

AR Koss, K Sekimoto, JB Gilman… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Volatile and intermediate-volatility non-methane organic gases (NMOGs) released from
biomass burning were measured during laboratory-simulated wildfires by proton-transfer …

Ozone chemistry in western US wildfire plumes

L Xu, JD Crounse, KT Vasquez, H Allen… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Wildfires are a substantial but poorly quantified source of tropospheric ozone (O3). Here, to
investigate the highly variable O3 chemistry in wildfire plumes, we exploit the in situ …

Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular emergency department visits associated with wildfire smoke exposure in California in 2015

ZS Wettstein, S Hoshiko, J Fahimi… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Wildfire smoke is known to exacerbate respiratory conditions; however,
evidence for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events has been inconsistent, despite …

Aging effects on biomass burning aerosol mass and composition: A critical review of field and laboratory studies

AL Hodshire, A Akherati, MJ Alvarado… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Biomass burning is a major source of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) with impacts on
health, climate, and air quality. The particles and vapors within biomass burning plumes …

Hazardous air pollutants in fresh and aged western US wildfire smoke and implications for long-term exposure

K O'Dell, RS Hornbrook, W Permar… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Wildfires have a significant adverse impact on air quality in the United States (US). To
understand the potential health impacts of wildfire smoke, many epidemiology studies rely …