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) …

Reducing Aerosol Forcing Uncertainty by Combining Models With Satellite and Within‐The‐Atmosphere Observations: A Three‐Way Street

RA Kahn, E Andrews, CA Brock, M Chin… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosol forcing uncertainty represents the largest climate forcing uncertainty overall. Its
magnitude has remained virtually undiminished over the past 20 years despite considerable …

Daily Local-Level Estimates of Ambient Wildfire Smoke PM2.5 for the Contiguous US

ML Childs, J Li, J Wen, S Heft-Neal… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Smoke from wildfires is a growing health risk across the US. Understanding the spatial and
temporal patterns of such exposure and its population health impacts requires separating …

[HTML][HTML] MODIS collection 6 MAIAC algorithm

A Lyapustin, Y Wang, S Korkin… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - amt.copernicus.org
This paper describes the latest version of the algorithm MAIAC used for processing the
MODIS Collection 6 data record. Since initial publication in 2011–2012, MAIAC has …

Satellite monitoring for air quality and health

T Holloway, D Miller, S Anenberg… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Data from satellite instruments provide estimates of gas and particle levels relevant to
human health, even pollutants invisible to the human eye. However, the successful …

Continuity between NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 and VIIRS Collection 2 land products

MO Román, C Justice, I Paynter, PB Boucher… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper provides a review and summary status of the research underway by the NASA
Terra Aqua Suomi-NPP Land Discipline Team to provide continuity of global land data …

Quantifying fire-specific smoke exposure and health impacts

J Wen, S Heft-Neal, P Baylis… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Rapidly changing wildfire regimes across the Western United States have driven more
frequent and severe wildfires, resulting in wide-ranging societal threats from wildfires and …

Development and evaluation of a North America ensemble wildfire air quality forecast: Initial application to the 2020 Western United States “Gigafire”

P Makkaroon, DQ Tong, Y Li, EJ Hyer… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires emit vast amounts of aerosols and trace gases into the atmosphere, exerting
myriad effects on air quality, climate, and human health. Ensemble forecasting has been …

First retrieval of absorbing aerosol height over dark target using TROPOMI oxygen B band: Algorithm development and application for surface particulate matter …

X Chen, J Wang, X Xu, M Zhou, H Zhang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Constraint of the vertical distribution of aerosol particles is crucial for the study of aerosol
plume structure, aerosol radiative effects, and ultimately monitoring surface air pollution. We …

[HTML][HTML] Air quality impact of the Northern California camp fire of November 2018

B Rooney, Y Wang, JH Jiang, B Zhao… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Abstract The Northern California Camp Fire that took place in November 2018 was one of
the most damaging environmental events in California history. Here, we analyze ground …