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) …

Wildfire smoke impacts respiratory health more than fine particles from other sources: observational evidence from Southern California

R Aguilera, T Corringham, A Gershunov… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Wildfires are becoming more frequent and destructive in a changing climate. Fine particulate
matter, PM2. 5, in wildfire smoke adversely impacts human health. Recent toxicological …

Observed impacts of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in California

AP Williams, JT Abatzoglou, A Gershunov… - Earth's …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic
climate change on wildfire in western North America and especially in California. During …

An overview of mountain meteorological effects relevant to fire behaviour and bushfire risk

JJ Sharples - International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2009 - CSIRO Publishing
Many of the processes that can occur in mountainous landscapes have the potential to
significantly affect fire behaviour and bushfire risk in general. These processes can lead to …

Spatial and temporal pattern of wildfires in California from 2000 to 2019

S Li, T Banerjee - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The environmental pollution, property losses and casualties caused by wildfires in California
are getting worse by the year. To minimize the interference of wildfires on economic and …

Climate and wildfire in the western United States

AL Westerling, A Gershunov, TJ Brown… - Bulletin of the …, 2003 - journals.ametsoc.org
A 21-yr gridded monthly fire-starts and acres-burned dataset from US Forest Service, Bureau
of Land Management, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs fire reports …

Fine particles in wildfire smoke and pediatric respiratory health in California

R Aguilera, T Corringham, A Gershunov, S Leibel… - …, 2021 - publications.aap.org
METHODS: Visits to emergency and urgent care facilities of Rady's Children Hospital
network in San Diego County, California, by individuals (aged≤ 19 years) with≥ 1 of the …

The 2017 North Bay and Southern California fires: a case study

NJ Nauslar, JT Abatzoglou, PT Marsh - Fire, 2018 - mdpi.com
Two extreme wind-driven wildfire events impacted California in late 2017, leading to 46
fatalities and thousands of structures lost. This study characterizes the meteorological and …

[BUCH][B] Natural hazards: earth's processes as hazards, disasters, and catastrophes

EA Keller, DE DeVecchio - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
The new revised fifth edition of Natural Hazards remains the go-to introductory-level survey
intended for university and college courses that are concerned with earth processes that …

[PDF][PDF] Atmospheric conditions associated with the exceptional fire season of 2003 in Portugal

RM Trigo, JMC Pereira, MRG Pereira… - International journal of …, 2006 - academia.edu
The summer of 2003 was characterised by exceptional warm weather in Europe, particularly
during the first two weeks of August, when a devastating sequence of large fires was …