Satellite remote sensing of active fires: History and current status, applications and future requirements

MJ Wooster, GJ Roberts, L Giglio, DP Roy… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Landscape fire is a widespread, somewhat unpredictable phenomena that plays an
important part in Earth's biogeochemical cycling. In many biomes worldwide fire also …

Robust relationship between air quality and infant mortality in Africa

S Heft-Neal, J Burney, E Bendavid, M Burke - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Poor air quality is thought to be an important mortality risk factor globally,–, but there is little
direct evidence from the develo** world on how mortality risk varies with changing …

Fire influences on atmospheric composition, air quality and climate

A Voulgarakis, RD Field - Current Pollution Reports, 2015 - Springer
Fires impact atmospheric composition through their emissions, which range from long-lived
gases to short-lived gases and aerosols. Effects are typically larger in the tropics and boreal …

Projections of rapidly rising surface temperatures over Africa under low mitigation

F Engelbrecht, J Adegoke, MJ Bopape… - Environmental …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
An analysis of observed trends in African annual-average near-surface temperatures over
the lastfive decades reveals drastic increases, particularly over parts of the subtropics and …

[HTML][HTML] Six global biomass burning emission datasets: intercomparison and application in one global aerosol model

X Pan, C Ichoku, M Chin, H Bian… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Aerosols from biomass burning (BB) emissions are poorly constrained in global and
regional models, resulting in a high level of uncertainty in understanding their impacts. In …

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 …

Diagnosing spatial biases and uncertainties in global fire emissions inventories: Indonesia as regional case study

T Liu, LJ Mickley, ME Marlier, RS DeFries… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Models of atmospheric composition rely on fire emissions inventories to reconstruct
and project impacts of biomass burning on air quality, public health, climate, ecosystem …

Investigation of black and brown carbon multiple‐wavelength‐dependent light absorption from biomass and fossil fuel combustion source emissions

MR Olson, M Victoria Garcia… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Quantification of the black carbon (BC) and brown carbon (BrC) components of source
emissions is critical to understanding the impact combustion aerosols have on atmospheric …

How emissions uncertainty influences the distribution and radiative impacts of smoke from fires in North America

TS Carter, CL Heald, JL Jimenez… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Fires and the aerosols that they emit impact air quality, health, and climate, but the
abundance and properties of carbonaceous aerosol (both black carbon and organic carbon) …

[HTML][HTML] Historical (1700–2012) global multi-model estimates of the fire emissions from the Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP)

F Li, M Val Martin, MO Andreae, A Arneth… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Fire emissions are a critical component of carbon and nutrient cycles and strongly affect
climate and air quality. Dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) with interactive fire …