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 …

Smoke-weather interaction affects extreme wildfires in diverse coastal regions

X Huang, K Ding, J Liu, Z Wang, R Tang, L Xue… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Extreme wildfires threaten human lives, air quality, and ecosystems. Meteorology plays a
vital role in wildfire behaviors, and the links between wildfires and climate have been widely …

The Community Land Model version 5: Description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

DM Lawrence, RA Fisher, CD Koven… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Community Land Model (CLM) is the land component of the Community Earth
System Model (CESM) and is used in several global and regional modeling systems. In this …

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 …

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 …

Quantifying fire-specific smoke exposure and health impacts

J Wen, S Heft-Neal, P Baylis, J Boomhower… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
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 …

Widespread biomass burning smoke throughout the remote troposphere

GP Schill, KD Froyd, H Bian, A Kupc, C Williamson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Biomass burning emits~ 34–41 Tg yr− 1 of smoke aerosol to the atmosphere.
Biomass burning aerosol directly influences the Earth's climate by attenuation of solar and …

QoE optimization for live video streaming in UAV-to-UAV communications via deep reinforcement learning

LA binti Burhanuddin, X Liu, Y Deng… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A challenge for rescue teams when fighting against wildfire in remote areas is the lack of
information, such as the size and images of fire areas. As such, live streaming from …

Wildfire plumes in the Western US are reaching greater heights and injecting more aerosols aloft as wildfire activity intensifies

TY Wilmot, DV Mallia, AG Hallar, JC Lin - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
By producing a first-of-its-kind, decadal-scale wildfire plume rise climatology in the Western
US and Canada, we identify trends toward enhanced plume top heights, aerosol loading …