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) …

Air pollution forecasts: An overview

L Bai, J Wang, X Ma, H Lu - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Air pollution is defined as a phenomenon harmful to the ecological system and the normal
conditions of human existence and development when some substances in the atmosphere …

Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda

JK Hiers, JJ O'Brien, JM Varner, BW Butler… - Fire Ecology, 2020 - Springer
The realm of wildland fire science encompasses both wild and prescribed fires. Most of the
research in the broader field has focused on wildfires, however, despite the prevalence of …

Wildland fire risk research in Canada

LM Johnston, X Wang, S Erni, SW Taylor… - Environmental …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Despite increasing concern about wildland fire risk in Canada, there is little synthesis of
knowledge that could contribute to the development of a comprehensive risk framework for a …

Wildfire smoke and public health risk

F Reisen, SM Duran, M Flannigan… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
Wildfire activity is predicted to increase with global climate change, resulting in longer fire
seasons and larger areas burned. The emissions from fires are highly variable owing to …

Identifying key drivers of wildfires in the contiguous US using machine learning and game theory interpretation

SSC Wang, Y Qian, LR Leung, Y Zhang - Earth's future, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the complex interrelationships between wildfire and its environmental and
anthropogenic controls is crucial for wildfire modeling and management. Although machine …

A review of approaches to estimate wildfire plume injection height within large-scale atmospheric chemical transport models

R Paugam, M Wooster, S Freitas… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Landscape fires produce smoke containing a very wide variety of chemical species, both
gases and aerosols. For larger, more intense fires that produce the greatest amounts of …

A transdisciplinary approach to understanding the health effects of wildfire and prescribed fire smoke regimes

GJ Williamson, DMJS Bowman, OF Price… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Prescribed burning is used to reduce the occurrence, extent and severity of uncontrolled
fires in many flammable landscapes. However, epidemiologic evidence of the human health …

Combustion efficiency and emission factors for wildfire-season fires in mixed conifer forests of the northern Rocky Mountains, US

SP Urbanski - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
In the US, wildfires and prescribed burning present significant challenges to air regulatory
agencies attempting to achieve and maintain compliance with air quality regulations. Fire …

Current state of the global operational aerosol multi‐model ensemble: An update from the International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction (ICAP)

P Xian, JS Reid, EJ Hyer, CR Sampson… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Since the first International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction (ICAP) multi‐model ensemble
(MME) study, the number of ICAP global operational aerosol models has increased from five …