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) …

Emissions of trace organic gases from Western US wildfires based on WE‐CAN aircraft measurements

W Permar, Q Wang, V Selimovic… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present emission measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for western US
wildland fires made on the NSF/NCAR C‐130 research aircraft during the Western Wildfire …

Variability and time of day dependence of ozone photochemistry in western wildfire plumes

MA Robinson, ZCJ Decker, KC Barsanti… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Understanding the efficiency and variability of photochemical ozone (O3) production from
western wildfire plumes is important to accurately estimate their influence on North American …

Emissions of reactive nitrogen from western US wildfires during summer 2018

J Lindaas, IB Pollack, LA Garofalo… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reactive nitrogen (Nr) within smoke plumes plays important roles in the production of ozone,
the formation of secondary aerosols, and deposition of fixed N to ecosystems. The Western …

Nighttime and daytime dark oxidation chemistry in wildfire plumes: an observation and model analysis of FIREX-AQ aircraft data

ZCJ Decker, MA Robinson, KC Barsanti… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Wildfires are increasing in size across the western US, leading to increases in human smoke
exposure and associated negative health impacts. The impact of biomass burning (BB) …

Direct estimates of biomass burning NOx emissions and lifetimes using daily observations from TROPOMI

X Jin, Q Zhu, RC Cohen - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Biomass burning emits an estimated 25% of global annual nitrogen oxides (NO x), an
important constituent that participates in the oxidative chemistry of the atmosphere …

Biomass burning nitrogen dioxide emissions derived from space with TROPOMI: methodology and validation

D Griffin, CA McLinden, E Dammers… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - amt.copernicus.org
Smoke from wildfires is a significant source of air pollution, which can adversely impact air
quality and ecosystems downwind. With the recently increasing intensity and severity of …

Viscosity, glass formation, and mixing times within secondary organic aerosol from biomass burning phenolics

KJ Kiland, F Mahrt, L Peng, S Nikkho… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomass burning events emit large amounts of phenolic compounds, which are oxidized in
the atmosphere and form secondary organic aerosol (SOA). Using the poke-flow technique …

Daytime oxidized reactive nitrogen partitioning in western US wildfire smoke plumes

JF Juncosa Calahorrano, J Lindaas… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption, and
Nitrogen (WE‐CAN) deployed the NSF/NCAR C‐130 aircraft in summer 2018 across the …