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) …

Climate-relevant properties of black carbon aerosols revealed by in situ measurements: a review

N Moteki - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2023 - Springer
Light-absorbing aerosols affect atmospheric radiation, dynamics, and precipitations through
shortwave absorption in the atmosphere and snowpack. Black carbon (BC) is considered …

Black carbon lofts wildfire smoke high into the stratosphere to form a persistent plume

P Yu, OB Toon, CG Bardeen, Y Zhu, KH Rosenlof… - Science, 2019 - science.org
In 2017, western Canadian wildfires injected smoke into the stratosphere that was
detectable by satellites for more than 8 months. The smoke plume rose from 12 to 23 …

Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment

TC Bond, SJ Doherty, DW Fahey… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in Earth's climate system. Black
carbon is a type of carbonaceous material with a unique combination of physical properties …

Brown carbon and internal mixing in biomass burning particles

DA Lack, JM Langridge, R Bahreini, CD Cappa… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - pnas.org
Biomass burning (BB) contributes large amounts of black carbon (BC) and particulate
organic matter (POM) to the atmosphere and contributes significantly to the earth's radiation …

Exploiting simultaneous observational constraints on mass and absorption to estimate the global direct radiative forcing of black carbon and brown carbon

X Wang, CL Heald, DA Ridley… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric black carbon (BC) is a leading climate warming agent, yet uncertainties on the
global direct radiative forcing (DRF) remain large. Here we expand a global model …

Evolution of trace gases and particles emitted by a chaparral fire in California

SK Akagi, JS Craven, JW Taylor… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
Biomass burning (BB) is a major global source of trace gases and particles. Accurately
representing the production and evolution of these emissions is an important goal for …

Atmospheric aerosols in Amazonia and land use change: from natural biogenic to biomass burning conditions

P Artaxo, LV Rizzo, JF Brito, HMJ Barbosa… - Faraday …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
In the wet season, a large portion of the Amazon region constitutes one of the most pristine
continental areas, with very low concentrations of atmospheric trace gases and aerosol …

Exploring the observational constraints on the simulation of brown carbon

X Wang, CL Heald, J Liu, RJ Weber… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Organic aerosols (OA) that strongly absorb solar radiation in the near-UV are referred to as
brown carbon (BrC). The sources, evolution, and optical properties of BrC remain highly …

Sources of carbonaceous aerosols and deposited black carbon in the Arctic in winter-spring: implications for radiative forcing

Q Wang, DJ Jacob, JA Fisher, J Mao… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
We use a global chemical transport model (GEOS-Chem CTM) to interpret observations of
black carbon (BC) and organic aerosol (OA) from the NASA ARCTAS aircraft campaign over …