Space-Based Observations of Ozone Precursors within California Wildfire Plumes and the Impacts on Ozone-NOx-VOC Chemistry

X **, AM Fiore, RC Cohen - Environmental Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
The frequency of wildfires in the western United States has escalated in recent decades.
Here we examine the impacts of wildfires on ground-level ozone (O3) precursors and the O3 …

Evolution of Reactive Organic Compounds and Their Potential Health Risk in Wildfire Smoke

HOT Pye, L Xu, BH Henderson, D Pagonis… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Wildfires are an increasing source of emissions into the air, with health effects modulated by
the abundance and toxicity of individual species. In this work, we estimate reactive organic …

Observational evidence reveals the significance of nocturnal chemistry in seasonal secondary organic aerosol formation

L Liu, T Hohaus, P Franke, AC Lange… - NPJ Climate and …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Oxidized Organic Aerosol (OOA), a major component of fine atmospheric particles,
impacts climate and human health. Previous experiments and atmospheric models …

Constraining emissions of volatile organic compounds from western US wildfires with WE-CAN and FIREX-AQ airborne observations

L **, W Permar, V Selimovic… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
The impact of biomass burning (BB) on the atmospheric burden of volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) is highly uncertain. Here we apply the GEOS-Chem chemical transport …

Emission Factors for Crop Residue and Prescribed Fires in the Eastern US During FIREX‐AQ

KR Travis, JH Crawford, AJ Soja… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural and prescribed burning activities emit large amounts of trace gases and
aerosols on regional to global scales. We present a compilation of emission factors (EFs) …

Atmospheric OH reactivity in the western United States determined from comprehensive gas-phase measurements during WE-CAN

W Permar, L **, Q Peng, K O'Dell, E Lill… - Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Wildfire smoke contains numerous different reactive organic gases, many of which have only
recently been identified and quantified. Consequently, their relative importance as an …

Emissions and atmospheric chemistry of furanoids from biomass burning: Insights from laboratory to atmospheric observations

MN Romanias, MM Coggon, F Al Ali… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Furanoids are a class of reactive volatile organic compounds that are major products from
the pyrolysis and combustion of biomass polymers, including cellulose, hemicellulose, and …

NEIVAv1. 0: Next-generation Emissions InVentory expansion of Akagi et al.(2011) version 1.0

S Binte Shahid, FG Lacey… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
Accurate representation of fire emissions is critical for modeling the in-plume, near-source,
and remote effects of biomass burning (BB) on atmospheric composition, air quality, and …

Evolution of organic carbon in the laboratory oxidation of biomass burning emissions

KJ Nihill, MM Coggon, CY Lim, AR Koss… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Biomass burning (BB) is a major source of reactive organic carbon into the atmosphere.
Once in the atmosphere, these organic BB emissions, in both the gas and particle phases …

[PDF][PDF] Investigation of Complex Solid Fuel Emissions and Their Atmospheric Chemistry in Gaseous and Aqueous Phases

T Wang - 2024 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Solid fuel refers to biomass (wood and agriculture residues) and coal. Biomass is renewable
organic matter derived from animal and plant remains (such as wood, animal dung, and crop …