Pollutant emissions from biomass burning: A review on emission characteristics, environmental impacts, and research perspectives

K Jiang, R Xing, Z Luo, W Huang, F Yi, Y Men, N Zhao… - Particuology, 2024 - Elsevier
Biomass is one most abundant resource on the earth providing important energies in
support of socioeconomic development in many areas. Burning of biomass fuels comprises …

Frontiers in Satellite‐Based Estimates of Cloud‐Mediated Aerosol Forcing

D Rosenfeld, A Kokhanovsky, T Goren… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric aerosols affect the Earth's climate in many ways, including acting as the seeds
on which cloud droplets form. Since a large fraction of these particles is anthropogenic, the …

Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing

H Brown, X Liu, R Pokhrel, S Murphy, Z Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Uncertainty in the representation of biomass burning (BB) aerosol composition and optical
properties in climate models contributes to a range in modeled aerosol effects on incoming …

Aerosol-boundary-layer-monsoon interactions amplify semi-direct effect of biomass smoke on low cloud formation in Southeast Asia

K Ding, X Huang, A Ding, M Wang, H Su… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Low clouds play a key role in the Earth-atmosphere energy balance and influence
agricultural production and solar-power generation. Smoke aloft has been found to enhance …

Influence of biogenic emissions from boreal forests on aerosol–cloud interactions

T Petäjä, K Tabakova, A Manninen, E Ezhova… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Boreal forest acts as a carbon sink and contributes to the formation of secondary organic
aerosols via emission of aerosol precursor compounds. However, these influences on the …

Fire air pollution reduces global terrestrial productivity

X Yue, N Unger - Nature Communications, 2018 - nature.com
Fire emissions generate air pollutants ozone (O3) and aerosols that influence the land
carbon cycle. Surface O3 damages vegetation photosynthesis through stomatal uptake …

Sensitivity of PM2. 5 and O3 pollution episodes to meteorological factors over the North China Plain

S Ma, M Shao, Y Zhang, Q Dai, M Xie - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Comprehensive Air-quality Model with extensions (CAMx) was used to explore
the sensitivity of PM 2.5 and O 3 concentrations to four selected meteorological factors: wind …

Radiative effect and climate impacts of brown carbon with the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM5)

H Brown, X Liu, Y Feng, Y Jiang, M Wu… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
A recent development in the representation of aerosols in climate models is the realization
that some components of organic aerosol (OA), emitted from biomass and biofuel burning …

Relationships between particulate matter, ozone, and nitrogen oxides during urban smoke events in the western US

CE Buysse, A Kaulfus, U Nair… - Environmental science & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Urban ozone (O3) pollution is influenced by the transport of wildfire smoke but observed
impacts are highly variable. We investigate O3 impacts from smoke in 18 western US cities …

The Ascension Island boundary layer in the remote southeast Atlantic is often smoky

P Zuidema, AJ Sedlacek III, C Flynn… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Observations from June to October 2016, from a surface‐based ARM Mobile Facility
deployment on Ascension Island (8° S, 14.5° W) indicate that refractory black carbon (rBC) is …