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 exposure, human health, and environmental justice need to be integrated into forest restoration and management

SM D'Evelyn, J Jung, E Alvarado… - Current environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United
States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a …

Chlorine activation and enhanced ozone depletion induced by wildfire aerosol

S Solomon, K Stone, P Yu, DM Murphy, D Kinnison… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Remarkable perturbations in the stratospheric abundances of chlorine species and ozone
were observed over Southern Hemisphere mid-latitudes following the 2020 Australian …

Biomass burning and aqueous reactions drive the elevation of wintertime PM2. 5 in the rural area of the Sichuan basin, China

X Zhang, Z Bao, L Zhang, J Zhou, H Che, Q Li… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study conducted a field campaign using a time-of-flight aerosol chemical speciation
monitor (ToF-ACSM) for PM 2.5 measurement at a rural site in Sichuan Basin (SCB) during …

Identification of species and sources of atmospheric chromophores by fluorescence excitation-emission matrix with parallel factor analysis

Q Chen, J Li, X Hua, X Jiang, Z Mu, M Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
It is essential to fully understand the physicochemical properties and sources of atmospheric
chromophores to evaluate their impacts on environmental quality and global climate. Three …

[HTML][HTML] Acute health effects of bushfire smoke on mortality in Sydney, Australia

E Jegasothy, IC Hanigan, J Van Buskirk… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Bushfire smoke is a major ongoing environmental hazard in Australia. In the
summer of 2019–2020 smoke from an extreme bushfire event exposed large populations to …

Regional influence of aerosol emissions from wildfires driven by combustion efficiency: Insights from the BBOP campaign

S Collier, S Zhou, TB Onasch, DA Jaffe… - Environmental …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Wildfires are important contributors to atmospheric aerosols and a large source of emissions
that impact regional air quality and global climate. In this study, the regional and nearfield …

Emissions of pollutant gases, fine particulate matters and their significant tracers from biomass burning in an open-system combustion chamber

S Chantara, D Thepnuan, W Wiriya, S Prawan, YI Tsai - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
An open-system combustion chamber was designed and constructed for simulation of
burning of various biomass types to estimate emission factors of pollutant gases, fine …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for impacts on surface-level air quality in the northeastern US from long-distance transport of smoke from North American fires during the Long …

HM Rogers, JC Ditto, DR Gentner - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Biomass burning is a large source of uncontrolled air pollutants, including particulate matter
(ie, PM 2.5), black carbon (BC), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and carbon monoxide …

Control of wildfire-sourced PM2. 5 in an office setting using a commercially available portable air cleaner

DA Stauffer, DA Autenrieth, JF Hart… - Journal of Occupational …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
A steady increase in wildfire event severity and season length has led to greater potential for
exposure to fine particulate matter associated with wildfire smoke. Research has found fine …