Extreme weather and climate change: population health and health system implications

KL Ebi, J Vanos, JW Baldwin, JE Bell… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Extreme weather and climate events, such as heat waves, cyclones, and floods, are an
expression of climate variability. These events and events influenced by climate change …

Satellite remote sensing of active fires: History and current status, applications and future requirements

MJ Wooster, GJ Roberts, L Giglio, DP Roy… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Landscape fire is a widespread, somewhat unpredictable phenomena that plays an
important part in Earth's biogeochemical cycling. In many biomes worldwide fire also …

Daily Local-Level Estimates of Ambient Wildfire Smoke PM2.5 for the Contiguous US

ML Childs, J Li, J Wen, S Heft-Neal… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Smoke from wildfires is a growing health risk across the US. Understanding the spatial and
temporal patterns of such exposure and its population health impacts requires separating …

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 …

Smoke-weather interaction affects extreme wildfires in diverse coastal regions

X Huang, K Ding, J Liu, Z Wang, R Tang, L Xue… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Extreme wildfires threaten human lives, air quality, and ecosystems. Meteorology plays a
vital role in wildfire behaviors, and the links between wildfires and climate have been widely …

Tripling of western US particulate pollution from wildfires in a warming climate

Y Xie, M Lin, B Decharme, C Delire… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The air quality impact of increased wildfires in a warming climate has often been overlooked
in current model projections, owing to the lack of interactive fire emissions of gases and …

Large contribution of biomass burning emissions to ozone throughout the global remote troposphere

I Bourgeois, J Peischl, JA Neuman… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Ozone is the third most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and
methane but has a larger uncertainty in its radiative forcing, in part because of uncertainty in …

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 …

Short-Term Exposure to Wildfire Smoke and and Cognitive Performance in a Brain-Training Game: A Longitudinal Study of US Adults

SE Cleland, LH Wyatt, L Wei, N Paul… - Environmental …, 2022 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: There is increasing evidence that long-term exposure to fine particulate matter
[PM≤ 2.5 μ m in aerodynamic diameter (PM 2.5)] may adversely impact cognitive …

Impacts of climate change on the fate of contaminants through extreme weather events

S Bolan, LP Padhye, T Jasemizad… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The direct impacts of climate change involve a multitude of phenomena, including rising sea
levels, intensified severe weather events such as droughts and flooding, increased …