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) …

Particulate matter, air quality and climate: lessons learned and future needs

S Fuzzi, U Baltensperger, K Carslaw… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
The literature on atmospheric particulate matter (PM), or atmospheric aerosol, has increased
enormously over the last 2 decades and amounts now to some 1500–2000 papers per year …

VOC characteristics, sources and contributions to SOA formation during haze events in Wuhan, Central China

L Hui, X Liu, Q Tan, M Feng, J An, Y Qu, Y Zhang… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Based on detailed data on 102 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) measured continuously
from 2016.10. 9 to 2016.11. 17 in Wuhan, the VOC characteristics, secondary organic …

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 …

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) …

Characteristics, secondary transformation, and health risk assessment of ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in urban Beijing, China

Y Liu, L Kong, X Liu, Y Zhang, C Li, Y Zhang… - Atmospheric Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
The long-term and high temporal resolution measurement of ambient volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) was continuously performed in urban Beijing in 2016. Historical VOC …

Processes controlling the composition and abundance of Arctic aerosol

MD Willis, WR Leaitch, JPD Abbatt - Reviews of Geophysics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic region is a harbinger of global change and is warming at a rate higher than the
global average. While Arctic warming is driven by increases in anthropogenic greenhouse …

Identification and Quantification of 4-Nitrocatechol Formed from OH and NO3 Radical-Initiated Reactions of Catechol in Air in the Presence of NOx: Implications for …

Z Finewax, JA de Gouw… - Environmental science & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Catechol (1, 2-benzenediol) is emitted from biomass burning and produced from a reaction
of phenol with OH radicals. It has been suggested as an important secondary organic …

Secondary organic aerosol formation and primary organic aerosol oxidation from biomass-burning smoke in a flow reactor during FLAME-3

AM Ortega, DA Day, MJ Cubison… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
We report the physical and chemical effects of photochemically aging dilute biomass-
burning smoke. A" potential aerosol mass"(PAM) flow reactor was used with analysis by a …

VOC characteristics, chemical reactivity and sources in urban Wuhan, central China

L Hui, X Liu, Q Tan, M Feng, J An, Y Qu, Y Zhang… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents the pollution levels, variation characteristics, chemical reactivity, source
apportionment and potential source regions of 102 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) …