Wildfires emit large amounts of black carbon and light-absorbing organic carbon, known as brown carbon, into the atmosphere. These particles perturb Earth’s radiation budget through absorption of incoming shortwave radiation. It is generally thought...
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Person: Chakrabarty, Shetty, Thind, Beeler, Sumlin, Zhang, Liu, Idrobo, Adachi, Wagner, Schwarz, Ahern, Sedlacek, Lambe, Daube, Lyu, Liu, Herndon, Onasch, Mishra
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The impacts of wildfires along the wildland urban interface (WUI) on atmospheric particulate concentrations and composition are an understudied source of air pollution exposure. To assess the residual impacts of the 2021 Marshall Fire (Colorado), a...
Person: Silberstein, Mael, Frischmon, Rieves, Coffey, Das, Dresser, Hatch, Nath, Pliszka, Reid, Vance, Wiedinmyer, de Gouw, Hannigan
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Watch this short video to learn why smoke from wildfires burning in other regions is something we should take seriously in the South, and what we can do to mitigate the risks it presents to our health! See the links below for additional resources....
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Created Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
[Executive Summary] State, federal, tribal, and local government and non-profit partners in Washington have identified that prescribed fire – fire set by trained practitioners, under specific fuel, weather, and topographic conditions to simulate...
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Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Little is known about the associations between long-term exposure to wildfire-related fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and mortality. We aimed to explore theses associations using the data from the UK Biobank cohort. Long-term wildfire-related PM2.5...
Person: Gao, Huang, Xu, Gasevic, Liu, Yu, Yu, Yue, Zhou, Zhang, Liu, Song, Guo, Li
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
FireSmoke Canada is the Canadian portal (available in both English and French) for information about wildland fire weather and smoke. It provides access to the BlueSky Canada smoke forecasts, fire weather forecasts, fire information, and the BlueSky...
Person: Lyder
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Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
As the 2023 fire season rages with unprecedented intensity in Canada, millions of people and countless animals across North America are exposed to wildfire smoke. Its harmful effects on human and animal health are only beginning to be explored in depth...
Person: Gross
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
There are growing needs to understand how extreme weather events impact the electrical grid. Renewable energy sources such as solar photovoltaics are expanding in use to help sustainably meet electricity demands. Wildfires and, notably, the widespread...
Person: Gilletly, Jackson, Staid
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Background: Prescribed fire is a land management tool used extensively across the United States. Owing to health and safety risks, smoke emitted by burns requires appropriate management. Smoke modelling tools are often used to mitigate air pollution...
Person: Johnson, Garcia-Menendez
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire is a major disturbance agent in Arctic boreal and tundra ecosystems that emits large quantities of atmospheric pollutants, including PM2.5. Under the substantial Arctic warming which is two to three times of global average, wildfire regimes in...
Person: Chen, Billmire, Loughner, Bredder, French, Kim, Loboda
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES