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) …

[HTML][HTML] Short-term health effects from outdoor exposure to biomass burning emissions: A review

A Karanasiou, A Alastuey, F Amato, M Renzi… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biomass burning (BB) including forest, bush, prescribed fires, agricultural fires, residential
wood combustion, and power generation has long been known to affect climate, air quality …

Wildland fire detection and monitoring using a drone-collected RGB/IR image dataset

X Chen, B Hopkins, H Wang, L O'Neill, F Afghah… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current forest monitoring technologies including satellite remote sensing, manned/piloted
aircraft, and observation towers leave uncertainties about a wildfire's extent, behavior, and …

Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda

JK Hiers, JJ O'Brien, JM Varner, BW Butler… - Fire Ecology, 2020 - Springer
The realm of wildland fire science encompasses both wild and prescribed fires. Most of the
research in the broader field has focused on wildfires, however, despite the prevalence of …

[PDF][PDF] Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene

JK Shuman, JK Balch, RT Barnes, PE Higuera… - PNAS …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have
harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of …

Predicting hourly PM2. 5 concentrations in wildfire-prone areas using a SpatioTemporal Transformer model

M Yu, A Masrur, C Blaszczak-Boxe - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Globally, wildfires are becoming more frequent and destructive, generating a significant
amount of smoke that can transport thousands of miles. Therefore, improving air pollution …

The fire and smoke model evaluation experiment—a plan for integrated, large fire–atmosphere field campaigns

S Prichard, NS Larkin, R Ottmar, NHF French, K Baker… - Atmosphere, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) is designed to collect
integrated observations from large wildland fires and provide evaluation datasets for new …

Bacterial Emission Factors: A Foundation for the Terrestrial-Atmospheric Modeling of Bacteria Aerosolized by Wildland Fires

LN Kobziar, P Lampman, A Tohidi… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Wildland fire is a major global driver in the exchange of aerosols between terrestrial
environments and the atmosphere. This exchange is commonly quantified using emission …

Wildland fire emission sampling at Fishlake National Forest, Utah using an unmanned aircraft system

J Aurell, B Gullett, A Holder, F Kiros, W Mitchell… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Emissions from a stand replacement prescribed burn were sampled using an unmanned
aircraft system (UAS, or “drone”) in Fishlake National Forest, Utah, USA Sixteen flights over …

Uncertainty in health impact assessments of smoke from a wildfire event

MM Johnson, F Garcia‐Menendez - GeoHealth, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires cause elevated air pollution that can be detrimental to human health. However,
health impact assessments associated with emissions from wildfire events are subject to …