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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 1986
Data on the optical absorption properties (expressed as a specific absorption, Ba) of the smoke emissions from fires with forest fuels have been determined for a series of low-intensity field fires and a series of laboratory scale fires. The Ba data have been used to estimate the emission factors for graphitic carbon [EF(Ce)] for these test fires to provide data needed for regional visibility studies, tropospheric air chemistry studies, and studies evaluating nuclear winter scenarios.
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Citation: Patterson, E. M.; McMahon, C. K.; Ward, D. E. 1986. Absorption properties and graphitic carbon emission factors of forest fire aerosols. Geophysical Research Letters 13(1):129-132.
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Keywords:
- absorption
- aerosols
- air quality
- broadcast burning
- carbon
- chemistry
- climatology
- emission factors
- field experimental fires
- fire intensity
- fuel types
- graphitic carbon
- laboratory fires
- laboratory fires
- large wildfires
- live fuels
- logging
- low intensity burns
- needles
- nuclear winter
- organic matter
- pine
- post-fire recovery
- radiation
- slash
- smoke aerosol emissions
- smoke behavior
- tropical forest
- wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 5000 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: Fire File DDW • Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
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