Fire in the air: Biomass burning impacts in a changing climate

M Keywood, M Kanakidou, A Stohl… - Critical Reviews in …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Fire has a role in ecosystem services; naturally produced wildfires are important for the
sustainability of many terrestrial biomes and fire is one of nature's primary carbon-cycling …

Air pollution from biomass burning in India

S Tripathi, S Yadav, K Sharma - Environmental Research Letters, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Air Pollution is the most difficult challenge India is facing today and anthropogenic biomass
burning (ABB) is one of the major and least understood sources leading to serious health …

Field measurement of emission factors of PM, EC, OC, parent, nitro-, and oxy-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for residential briquette, coal cake, and wood in rural …

G Shen, S Tao, S Wei, Y Chen, Y Zhang… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
Air pollutants from residential solid fuel combustion are attracting growing public concern.
Field measured emission factors (EFs) of various air pollutants for solid fuels are close to the …

Global monitoring and forecasting of biomass-burning smoke: Description of and lessons from the Fire Locating and Modeling of Burning Emissions (FLAMBE) …

JS Reid, EJ Hyer, EM Prins… - IEEE Journal of …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, global biomass-burning research has grown from what was primarily a climate
field to include a vibrant air quality observation and forecasting community. While new fire …

Molecular characterization of urban organic aerosol in tropical India: contributions of primary emissions and secondary photooxidation

PQ Fu, K Kawamura, CM Pavuluri… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
Organic molecular composition of PM 10 samples, collected at Chennai in tropical India,
was studied using capillary gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Fourteen organic …

Emission of trace gases and organic components in smoke particles from a wildfire in a mixed-evergreen forest in Portugal

CA Alves, A Vicente, C Monteiro, C Gonçalves… - Science of the Total …, 2011 - Elsevier
On May 2009, both the gas and particulate fractions of smoke from a wildfire in Sever do
Vouga, central Portugal, were sampled. Total hydrocarbons and carbon oxides (CO2 and …

Particulate emissions from different types of biomass burning

Y Zhang, D Obrist, B Zielinska, A Gertler - Atmospheric Environment, 2013 - Elsevier
Biomass burning is a significant emission source of PM2. 5 (ie, particulate matter with an
aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 μm), but few studies addressed the chemical …

Chemical Composition of PM2.5 in October 2017 Northern California Wildfire Plumes

Y Liang, CN Jen, RJ Weber, PK Misztal… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Wildfires have become more common and intense in the western US over recent decades
due to a combination of historical land management and warming climate. Emissions from …

Sources of cellular oxidative potential of water-soluble fine ambient particulate matter in the Midwestern United States

Y Wang, JV Puthussery, H Yu, Y Liu, S Salana… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigated the spatiotemporal distribution and sources of cellular oxidative potential
(OP) in the Midwest US. Weekly samples were collected from three urban [Chicago (IL) …

Spatial and seasonal trends in biogenic secondary organic aerosol tracers and water-soluble organic carbon in the southeastern United States

X Ding, M Zheng, L Yu, X Zhang… - Environmental …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Twenty-four hour integrated filter samples of fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) were collected
from May 2004 to April 2005 at one rural site and three urban sites located in the …