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) …

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 …

A review of the inter-correlation of climate change, air pollution and urban sustainability using novel machine learning algorithms and spatial information science

AL Balogun, A Tella, L Baloo, N Adebisi - Urban Climate, 2021 - Elsevier
Air pollution is a global geo-hazard with significant implications, including deterioration of
health and premature death. Climatic variables such as temperature, rainfall, wind, and …

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) …

Scientific assessment of background ozone over the US: Implications for air quality management

DA Jaffe, OR Cooper, AM Fiore, BH Henderson… - Elem Sci …, 2018 - online.ucpress.edu
Ozone (O3) is a key air pollutant that is produced from precursor emissions and has adverse
impacts on human health and ecosystems. In the US, the Clean Air Act (CAA) regulates O3 …

Regional influence of wildfires on aerosol chemistry in the western US and insights into atmospheric aging of biomass burning organic aerosol

S Zhou, S Collier, DA Jaffe, NL Briggs… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Biomass burning (BB) is one of the most important contributors to atmospheric aerosols on a
global scale, and wildfires are a large source of emissions that impact regional air quality …

Rapid evolution of aerosol particles and their optical properties downwind of wildfires in the western US

LI Kleinman, AJ Sedlacek III, K Adachi… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
During the first phase of the Biomass Burn Operational Project (BBOP) field campaign,
conducted in the Pacific Northwest, the DOE G-1 aircraft was used to follow the time …

Relationships between particulate matter, ozone, and nitrogen oxides during urban smoke events in the western US

CE Buysse, A Kaulfus, U Nair… - Environmental science & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Urban ozone (O3) pollution is influenced by the transport of wildfire smoke but observed
impacts are highly variable. We investigate O3 impacts from smoke in 18 western US cities …

HONO emissions from western US wildfires provide dominant radical source in fresh wildfire smoke

Q Peng, BB Palm, KE Melander, BH Lee… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Wildfires are an important source of nitrous acid (HONO), a photolabile radical precursor, yet
in situ measurements and quantification of primary HONO emissions from open wildfires …

Methane emissions from offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

TI Yacovitch, C Daube, SC Herndon - Environmental science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Shipboard measurements of offshore oil and gas facilities were conducted in the Gulf of
Mexico in February 2018. Species measured at 1 s include methane, ethane, carbon-13 …