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) …

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 …

Global population exposure to landscape fire air pollution from 2000 to 2019

R Xu, T Ye, X Yue, Z Yang, W Yu, Y Zhang, ML Bell… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Wildfires are thought to be increasing in severity and frequency as a result of climate
change,,,–. Air pollution from landscape fires can negatively affect human health,–, but …

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 …

Description and evaluation of the tropospheric aerosol scheme in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Integrated Forecasting …

S Rémy, Z Kipling, J Flemming… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
This article describes the IFS-AER aerosol module used operationally in the Integrated
Forecasting System (IFS) cycle 45R1, operated by the European Centre for Medium-Range …

[HTML][HTML] The CHIMERE v2020r1 online chemistry-transport model

L Menut, B Bessagnet, R Briant… - Geoscientific Model …, 2021 - gmd.copernicus.org
The CHIMERE chemistry-transport model v2020r1 replaces the v2017r5 version and
provides numerous novelties. The most important of these is the online coupling with the …

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 …

Dominance of wildfires impact on air quality exceedances during the 2020 record‐breaking wildfire season in the United States

Y Li, D Tong, S Ma, X Zhang… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The western United States experienced a record‐breaking wildfire season in 2020.
This study quantifies the contribution of wildfire emissions to the exceedances of health …

Evaluation and intercomparison of wildfire smoke forecasts from multiple modeling systems for the 2019 Williams Flats fire

X Ye, P Arab, R Ahmadov, E James… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Wildfire smoke is one of the most significant concerns of human and environmental health,
associated with its substantial impacts on air quality, weather, and climate. However …

Fires as a source of annual ambient PM2. 5 exposure and chronic health impacts in Europe

S Chowdhury, R Hänninen, M Sofiev… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chronic exposure to ambient PM 2.5 is the largest environmental health risk in Europe. We
used a chemical transport model and recent exposure response functions to simulate …