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) …

Particulate matter, air quality and climate: lessons learned and future needs

S Fuzzi, U Baltensperger, K Carslaw… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
The literature on atmospheric particulate matter (PM), or atmospheric aerosol, has increased
enormously over the last 2 decades and amounts now to some 1500–2000 papers per year …

US particulate matter air quality improves except in wildfire-prone areas

CD McClure, DA Jaffe - Proceedings of the National …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Using data from rural monitoring sites across the contiguous United States, we evaluated
fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) trends for 1988–2016. We calculate trends in the policy …

Pollutants from the combustion of solid biomass fuels

A Williams, JM Jones, L Ma… - Progress in Energy and …, 2012 - Elsevier
This review considers the pollutants formed by the combustion of solid biomass fuels. The
availability and potential use of solid biofuels is first discussed. This is followed by the …

Contribution of Wildland-Fire Smoke to US PM2.5 and Its Influence on Recent Trends

K O'Dell, B Ford, EV Fischer… - Environmental science & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Seasonal-mean concentrations of particulate matter with diameters smaller than 2.5 μm
(PM2. 5) have been decreasing across the United States (US) for several decades, with …

Global air quality and climate

AM Fiore, V Naik, DV Spracklen, A Steiner… - Chemical Society …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Emissions of air pollutants and their precursors determine regional air quality and can alter
climate. Climate change can perturb the long-range transport, chemical processing, and …

Hazardous air pollutants in fresh and aged western US wildfire smoke and implications for long-term exposure

K O'Dell, RS Hornbrook, W Permar… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Wildfires have a significant adverse impact on air quality in the United States (US). To
understand the potential health impacts of wildfire smoke, many epidemiology studies rely …

A review of natural aerosol interactions and feedbacks within the Earth system

KS Carslaw, O Boucher, DV Spracklen… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
The natural environment is a major source of atmospheric aerosols, including dust,
secondary organic material from terrestrial biogenic emissions, carbonaceous particles from …

Impacts of climate change from 2000 to 2050 on wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations in the western United States

DV Spracklen, LJ Mickley, JA Logan… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the impact of climate change on wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol
concentrations in the western United States. We regress observed area burned onto …

Seasonal composition of remote and urban fine particulate matter in the United States

JL Hand, BA Schichtel, M Pitchford… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Speciated aerosol composition data from the rural Interagency Monitoring for Protected
Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network and the Environmental Protection Agency's …