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) …

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 …

Formation of secondary organic aerosol from wildfire emissions enhanced by long-time ageing

Y He, B Zhao, S Wang, R Valorso, X Chang, D Yin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Wildfire smoke, consisting primarily of organic aerosols, has profound impacts on air quality,
climate and human health. Wildfire organic aerosol evolves over long-time photochemical …

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 …

Oxygenated aromatic compounds are important precursors of secondary organic aerosol in biomass-burning emissions

A Akherati, Y He, MM Coggon, AR Koss… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biomass burning is the largest combustion-related source of volatile organic compounds
(VOCs) to the atmosphere. We describe the development of a state-of-the-science model to …

Large contribution of biomass burning emissions to ozone throughout the global remote troposphere

I Bourgeois, J Peischl, JA Neuman, SS Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Ozone is the third most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and
methane but has a larger uncertainty in its radiative forcing, in part because of uncertainty in …

Influence of wildfire on urban ozone: An observationally constrained box modeling study at a site in the Colorado front range

PS Rickly, MM Coggon, KC Aikin… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Increasing trends in biomass burning emissions significantly impact air quality in North
America. Enhanced mixing ratios of ozone (O3) in urban areas during smoke-impacted …

Contribution of carbonyl chromophores in secondary brown carbon from nighttime oxidation of unsaturated heterocyclic volatile organic compounds

K Chen, R Mayorga, C Hamilton… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The light absorption properties of brown carbon (BrC), which are linked to molecular
chromophores, may play a significant role in the Earth's energy budget. While nitroaromatic …

Dilution and photooxidation driven processes explain the evolution of organic aerosol in wildfire plumes

A Akherati, Y He, LA Garofalo, AL Hodshire… - Environmental …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Wildfires are an important atmospheric source of primary organic aerosol (POA) and
precursors for secondary organic aerosol (SOA) at regional and global scales. However …