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The intensity and frequency of wildfires is increasing globally. The systematic review of the current evidence on long-term impacts of non-occupational wildfire exposure on human health has not been performed yet. To provide a systematic review and identify potential knowledge…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfire, systematic review, long-term health effects, PM - particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, human health, wildfire exposure
A warming climate is one of the most important driving forces of intensified wildfires globally. The unprecedented wildfires broke out in the Australian ‘Black Summer’ (November 2019–February 2020), which released massive heat, gases, and particles into the atmosphere. The total…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire, climate change, CO2 - carbon dioxide, emission estimates, carbon budget, radiative forcing, Black Summer fires
[from the text] In recent decades, wildfires in the United States have increased, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. The effect of wildfire smoke on headache disorders is not well characterized. Many of my adult and pediatric patients in Oregon, most of whom have migraine,…
Person:
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: headache, migraine disorders, wildfires, Oregon
The NOAA/NASA FIREX-AQ (Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality) experiment was a multi-agency, inter-disciplinary research effort to: (1) obtain detailed measurements of trace gas and aerosol emissions from wildfires and prescribed fires using aircraft…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, air quality, remote sensing
Though fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has decreased in the United States (U.S.) in the past two decades, the increasing frequency, duration, and severity of wildfires significantly (though episodically) impairs air quality in wildfire-prone regions and beyond. Increasing PM2.5…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: air pollution, air quality, PM - particulate matter, human health, machine learning, PM2.5, wildfire
Increased forest fires in the future will create opportunities to undertake salvage logging and replanting activities with the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relative to a ‘do nothing’ scenario that relies on natural regeneration. Salvage logging of fire-…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire, British Columbia, Canada, greenhouse gas emissions, GCBM - Generic Carbon Budget Model
Wildfires play a critical role in regulating soil carbon (C) budgets in peatland ecosystems, and their frequency and intensity are increasing owing to climate change and human activities. Wildfires not only emit CO2 during the combustion process but also produce pyrogenic carbon…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: peatland, PyC - pyrogenic carbon, carbon mineralization, wildfire, phenol oxidase, China, Great Khingan Mountains
Having recently experienced the three worst wildfire seasons in British Columbia's history in 2017, 2018 and 2021, and anticipating more severe impacts in the future, a key Carbon (C) research priority is to develop reliable models to explore options and identify a portfolio of…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: reduction, wildfire, climate change mitigation, greenhouse gases, GCBM - Generic Carbon Budget Model, British Columbia, Canada
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have become cause for growing concern in the Arctic ecosystems, partly due to their stable levels despite global emission reduction. Wildfire is considered one of the primary sources that influence PAH levels and trends in the Arctic, but…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: BaP - benzo(a)pyrene, Arctic, wildfires, source apportionment, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
The latest forecasts indicate wildfire activity in many parts of the world. Wildfire smoke contains hazardous air pollutants such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter et cetera. However, prediction of this impact and on time medical care are difficult…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: air pollution, wildfires, health risk, digital environment, Russia, Siberia, public health
Abstract. Wildfire smoke is known as a highly absorptive aerosol type in the shortwave wavelength range. The absorption of Sun light by optically thick smoke layers results in heating of the ambient air. This heating is translated into self-lofting of the smoke up to more than 1…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: CALIOP - Cloud Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization, CAMS - Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, wildfires, ECRAD - European Centre for Medium-RangeWeather Forecasts Radiation, lofting, AOT - aerosol optical thickness, plumes
Globally, wildfires have seen remarkable increase in duration and size and have become a health hazard. In addition to vegetation and habitat destruction, rapid release of smoke, dust and gaseous pollutants in the atmosphere contributes to its short and long-term detrimental…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, respiratory disease, COVID-19, air pollution
The impacts of air pollution on public health have become great concerns worldwide. Particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter small than 2.5μm (PM2.5), either from conventional sources such as traffic emissions or wildfire smoke, is among the most damaging air pollutants…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: health impacts, wildfire smoke exposure, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease
Greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting of emissions from land use, land-use change, and forestry necessarily involves consideration of landscape fire. This is of particular importance for Australia given that natural and human fire is a common occurrence, and many ecosystems are…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: anthropogenic fires, greenhouse gas emissions, IPCC, land use change, UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, wildfires, Australia, landscape fire
Landscape fires emit smoke that contains particulate matter (PM) that can be harmful to human health. Prescribed fires or hazard reduction burns (HRBs) and wildfires can substantially reduce air quality in populated areas. While HRBs reduce the size and PM output of future…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: PM2.5, wildfires, air quality, fire area, Australia
Rapid warming in Arctic tundra may lead to drier soils in summer and greater lightning ignition rates, likely culminating in enhanced wildfire risk. Increased wildfire frequency and intensity leads to greater conversion of permafrost carbon to greenhouse gas emissions. Here, we…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: CH4 - methane, Arctic tundra fire, airborne spectroscopy, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
The escalating frequency and severity of global wildfires necessitate an in-depth understanding and monitoring of wildfire smoke impacts, specifically its contribution to fine particulate matter (PM2.5). We propose a data-fusion method to study wildfire contribution to PM2.5…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Bayesian analysis, calibration, citizen science, spectral analysis, spatiotemporal modelling, fine particulate matter, PM2.5, air quality
[First paragraph] Firefighters are embarking on an ambitious experiment to stamp out blazes deep in the Alaskan wilderness as a way to avert carbon emissions in what experts say is a seismic shift in thinking in modern wildfire management that has traditionally focused only on…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate change mitigation, carbon release, Yukon Flats, BLM - Bureau of Land Management, Alaska wildfires
Between 2010 and 2020, an average of 36,037 hectares of grassland burned in wildfires in California each year, emitting greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and particulate matter (PM). These emissions impact climate and human health. Cattle grazing removes herbaceous fuel through the…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: livestock, herbaceous fuel, Monte Carlo, climate change, greenhouse gas, PM - particulate matter, grasslands
Wildfires have become larger and more frequent because of climate change, increasing their impact on air pollution. Air quality forecasts and climate models do not currently account for changes in the composition of wildfire emissions during the commonly observed progression…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: air pollution, air quality, satellite data, TROPOMI - TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument
Boreal forest ecosystems are regions vulnerable to climate change. Such areas act as the main atmospheric carbon sinks in the world. Wildfires are among the drivers of ecosystem modification and functioning. Boreal wildfires emit an annual average of about 10% of global fire…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Siberia, forest fires, soil emission, boreal forest, disturbances, climate change, carbon cycle, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Atmospheric pollutant gases emitted from straw burning and forest fires can lead to air quality and human health problems. This work explored the evolutionary trends of atmospheric CO2 and other pollutant gases in five countries of Peninsular Southeast Asia (PSEA) over a long…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: WRF-Chem, air pollutants, biomass burning, Asia, Sentinel-5P, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, air quality, human health, FINN - Fire Inventory of NCAR
Sub-micron particles are ubiquitous in the indoor environment, especially during wildfire smoke episodes, and have a higher impact on human health than larger particles. Conventional fibrous air filters installed in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems play…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, HVAC, air pollution, indoor air quality, indoor air filtration, filters, health effects, Canada
Ambient air quality is the most important environmental factor affecting human health, estimated by the WHO to be responsible for 4.2 million deaths annually. Having timely estimates for air quality is critical for implementing public policies that can limit anthropogenic…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, low-cost sensor, wildfires, air trajectories, source contribution, Brazil, air quality
Peatland fires are one of the major global sources of atmospheric particles. Emission factors for fine (PM1 and PM2.5) and ultrafine (PM0.1) particles and particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from plants in the peat swamp forest (PSF), including Melaleuca…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: peat swamp forest, forest burning source, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Melaleuca cajuputi, PM2.5, PM1, PM0.1, leaf litter, PAH diagnostic ratios, particle emission factors