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) …

Proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry: applications in atmospheric sciences

B Yuan, AR Koss, C Warneke, M Coggon… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) has been widely used to study the
emissions, distributions, and chemical evolution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in …

Emission factors for open and domestic biomass burning for use in atmospheric models

SK Akagi, RJ Yokelson, C Wiedinmyer… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
Biomass burning (BB) is the second largest source of trace gases and the largest source of
primary fine carbonaceous particles in the global troposphere. Many recent BB studies have …

Non-methane organic gas emissions from biomass burning: identification, quantification, and emission factors from PTR-ToF during the FIREX 2016 laboratory …

AR Koss, K Sekimoto, JB Gilman… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Volatile and intermediate-volatility non-methane organic gases (NMOGs) released from
biomass burning were measured during laboratory-simulated wildfires by proton-transfer …

Ozone production from wildfires: A critical review

DA Jaffe, NL Wigder - Atmospheric Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Tropospheric ozone (O3) negatively impacts human health and ecosystems, and is a
greenhouse gas. Wildfires are a source of tropospheric O3, and studies show that wildfires …

Characterization of biomass burning emissions from cooking fires, peat, crop residue, and other fuels with high-resolution proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass …

CE Stockwell, PR Veres, J Williams… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
We deployed a high-resolution proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometer
(PTR-TOF-MS) to measure biomass-burning emissions from peat, crop residue, cooking …

Atmospheric peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN): a global budget and source attribution

EV Fischer, DJ Jacob, RM Yantosca… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - acp.copernicus.org
Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) formed in the atmospheric oxidation of non-methane volatile
organic compounds (NMVOCs) is the principal tropospheric reservoir for nitrogen oxide …

Coupling field and laboratory measurements to estimate the emission factors of identified and unidentified trace gases for prescribed fires

RJ Yokelson, IR Burling, JB Gilman… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
An extensive program of experiments focused on biomass burning emissions began with a
laboratory phase in which vegetative fuels commonly consumed in prescribed fires were …

Evolution of trace gases and particles emitted by a chaparral fire in California

SK Akagi, JS Craven, JW Taylor… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
Biomass burning (BB) is a major global source of trace gases and particles. Accurately
representing the production and evolution of these emissions is an important goal for …

Biomass burning emissions and potential air quality impacts of volatile organic compounds and other trace gases from fuels common in the US

JB Gilman, BM Lerner, WC Kuster… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
A comprehensive suite of instruments was used to quantify the emissions of over 200
organic gases, including methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and 9 inorganic …