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) …

Ice‐nucleating particles that impact clouds and climate: Observational and modeling research needs

SM Burrows, CS McCluskey, G Cornwell… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric ice‐nucleating particles (INPs) play a critical role in cloud freezing processes,
with important implications for precipitation formation and cloud radiative properties, and …

On the stratospheric chemistry of midlatitude wildfire smoke

S Solomon, K Dube, K Stone, P Yu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Massive Australian wildfires lofted smoke directly into the stratosphere in the austral summer
of 2019/20. The smoke led to increases in optical extinction throughout the midlatitudes of …

Aging of atmospheric brown carbon aerosol

RF Hems, EG Schnitzler, C Liu-Kang… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Emitted by numerous primary sources and formed by secondary sources, atmospheric
brown carbon (BrC) aerosol is chemically complex. As BrC aerosol ages in the atmosphere …

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 …

Fire influence on regional to global Environments and air quality (FIREX‐AQ)

C Warneke, JP Schwarz, J Dibb… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The NOAA/NASA Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air
Quality (FIREX‐AQ) experiment was a multi‐agency, inter‐disciplinary research effort to:(a) …

Oxygenated aromatic compounds are important precursors of secondary organic aerosol in biomass-burning emissions

A Akherati, Y He, MM Coggon, AR Koss… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biomass burning is the largest combustion-related source of volatile organic compounds
(VOCs) to the atmosphere. We describe the development of a state-of-the-science model to …

Climate forcing and trends of organic aerosols in the Community Earth System Model (CESM2)

S Tilmes, A Hodzic, LK Emmons… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) includes three main
atmospheric configurations: the Community Atmosphere Model version 6 (CAM6) with …

Rate of atmospheric brown carbon whitening governed by environmental conditions

EG Schnitzler, NGA Gerrebos… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Biomass burning organic aerosol (BBOA) in the atmosphere contains many compounds that
absorb solar radiation, called brown carbon (BrC). While BBOA is in the atmosphere, BrC …

Formation of secondary organic aerosol from wildfire emissions enhanced by long-time ageing

Y He, B Zhao, S Wang, R Valorso, X Chang, D Yin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Wildfire smoke, consisting primarily of organic aerosols, has profound impacts on air quality,
climate and human health. Wildfire organic aerosol evolves over long-time photochemical …