The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States

M Burke, A Driscoll, S Heft-Neal… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on
the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated …

Associations between wildfire smoke exposure during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth in California

S Heft-Neal, A Driscoll, W Yang, G Shaw… - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
There is limited population-scale evidence on the burden of exposure to wildfire smoke
during pregnancy and its impacts on birth outcomes. In order to investigate this relationship …

Isocyanic acid (HNCO) and its fate in the atmosphere: a review

MD Leslie, M Ridoli, JG Murphy… - … Science: Processes & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Isocyanic acid (HNCO) has recently been identified in ambient air at potentially concerning
concentrations for human health. Since its first atmospheric detection, significant progress …

Fire influence on regional to global Environments and air quality (FIREX‐AQ)

C Warneke, JP Schwarz, J Dibb… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The NOAA/NASA Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air
Quality (FIREX‐AQ) experiment was a multi‐agency, inter‐disciplinary research effort to:(a) …

Molecular composition and photochemical lifetimes of brown carbon chromophores in biomass burning organic aerosol

LT Fleming, P Lin, JM Roberts… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
To better understand the effects of wildfires on air quality and climate, it is important to
assess the occurrence of chromophoric compounds in smoke and characterize their optical …

[HTML][HTML] OH chemistry of non-methane organic gases (NMOGs) emitted from laboratory and ambient biomass burning smoke: evaluating the influence of furans and …

MM Coggon, CY Lim, AR Koss… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Chamber oxidation experiments conducted at the Fire Sciences Laboratory in 2016 are
evaluated to identify important chemical processes contributing to the hydroxy radical (OH) …

The persistence of smoke VOCs indoors: Partitioning, surface cleaning, and air cleaning in a smoke-contaminated house

J Li, MF Link, S Pandit, MH Webb, KJ Mayer… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Wildfires are increasing in frequency, raising concerns that smoke can permeate indoor
environments and expose people to chemical air contaminants. To study smoke …

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 …

Heterogeneous hydroxyl radical oxidation of isoprene-epoxydiol-derived methyltetrol sulfates: plausible formation mechanisms of previously unexplained …

Y Chen, Y Zhang, AT Lambe, R Xu, Z Lei… - … & Technology Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Methyltetrol sulfates are unique tracers for secondary organic aerosols (SOA) formed from
acid-driven multiphase chemistry of isoprene-derived epoxydiols. 2-Methyltetrol sulfate …

Aqueous photoreactions of wood smoke brown carbon

RF Hems, EG Schnitzler, M Bastawrous… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A dominant source of light-absorbing aerosol particles, brown carbon (BrC), to the
atmosphere is smoke from biomass burning. Aqueous aging of biomass burning organic …