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 …

Direct estimates of biomass burning NOx emissions and lifetimes using daily observations from TROPOMI

X **, Q Zhu, RC Cohen - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Biomass burning emits an estimated 25% of global annual nitrogen oxides (NO x), an
important constituent that participates in the oxidative chemistry of the atmosphere …

Biomass burning CO emissions: exploring insights through TROPOMI-derived emissions and emission coefficients

D Griffin, J Chen, K Anderson, P Makar… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Emissions from biomass burning are a significant source of air pollution, which can
adversely impact air quality and ecosystems thousands of kilometres downwind. These …

Biomass burning nitrogen dioxide emissions derived from space with TROPOMI: methodology and validation

D Griffin, CA McLinden, E Dammers… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - amt.copernicus.org
Smoke from wildfires is a significant source of air pollution, which can adversely impact air
quality and ecosystems downwind. With the recently increasing intensity and severity of …

[HTML][HTML] The global forest fire emissions prediction system version 1.0

K Anderson, J Chen, P Englefield… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
Abstract The Global Forest Fire Emissions Prediction System (GFFEPS) is a model that
estimates biomass burning in near-real time for global air quality forecasting. The model …

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 …

A first comparison of TROPOMI aerosol layer height (ALH) to CALIOP data

S Nanda, M de Graaf, JP Veefkind… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - amt.copernicus.org
The TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) level-2 aerosol layer height (ALH)
product has now been released to the general public. This product is retrieved using …

Uncertainty in health impact assessments of smoke from a wildfire event

MM Johnson, F Garcia‐Menendez - GeoHealth, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires cause elevated air pollution that can be detrimental to human health. However,
health impact assessments associated with emissions from wildfire events are subject to …

Extreme wildfires over northern Greece during summer 2023–Part A: Effects on aerosol optical properties and solar UV radiation

K Michailidis, K Garane, D Karagkiozidis… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - Elsevier
In Mediterranean countries, such as Greece, the frequency of forest fires has increased in
recent years, primarily due to the widespread impacts of climate change. At the end of …