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Large-scale wildfires in California, USA, are increasing in both size and frequency, with substantial health consequences. The capacity for wildfire smoke to displace microbes and cause clinically significant fungal infections is...
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Person: Mulliken, Hampshire, Rappold, Fung, Babik, Doernberg
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Extreme enhancements in the total columns of carbon monoxide (CO), peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN), ethylene (C2H4), methanol (CH3OH), and formic acid (HCOOH) were observed over the Canadian high Arctic during the period of 17-22 August 2017 by a ground-...
Person: Wizenberg, Strong, Jones, Lutsch, Mahieu, Franco, Clarisse
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Large scale biomass burning like forest fires and crop residue burning can significantly impact the physical environment, including land cover, land use, ecology, habitats, and climate change. We investigated the effect of fire counts on surface Black...
Person: Borgohain, Gogoi, Barman, Kundu, Banik, Kundu, Bhuyan, Aggarwal
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) savannas and woodlands are known for providing numerous ecosystem services such as promoting biodiversity, reducing risk of wildfire and insect outbreaks, and increasing water yields. In these open pine systems,...
Person: Puhlick, O'Halloran, Starr, Abney, Pile Knapp, McCleery, Klepzig, Brantley, Song
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The present study contributes to an increased understanding of pyro-convection phenomena by using a fire-atmosphere coupled simulation, and investigates in detail the large-scale meteorological conditions affecting Portugal during the occurrence of...
Person: Campos, Couto, Filippi, Baggio, Salgado
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire activity in the western United States during August to October 2020 was exceptional in terms of the fire severity and area burned. Extremely dry biomass fuels from near historic multi-year drought conditions were further exacerbated with very...
Person: Eck, Holben, Reid, Sinyuk, Giles, Arola, Slutsker, Schafer, Sorokin, Smirnov, LaRosa, Kraft, Reid, O'Neill, Welton, Menendez
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
As the climate system warms, megafires have become more frequent with devastating effects. A byproduct of these events is the creation of smoke plumes that can rise into the stratosphere and spread across the globe where they reside for many months. To...
Person: Guimond, Reisner, Dubey
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smoke production in a smoke chamber is characterized by the accumulation of smoke and the continuous consumption of oxygen leading to a vitiated atmosphere. However, a method is proposed to predict the smoke evolution in a smoke chamber at 25 kW/m2 by...
Person: Sonnier, Dumazert, Vangrevelynghe, Brendlé, Ferry
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Little is known about how low-income residents of urban communities engage their knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and resources to mitigate the health impacts of wildfire smoke and other forms of air pollution. We interviewed 40 adults in Los Angeles,...
Person: Palinkas, De Leon, Yu, Salinas, Fernandez, Johnston, Rahman, Silva, Hurlburt, McConnell, Garcia
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The emission of black carbon (BC) particles, which cause atmospheric warming by affecting radiation budget in the atmosphere, is the result of an incomplete combustion process of organic materials. The recent wildfire event during the summer 2019–2020...
Person: Duc, Azzi, Zhang, Kirkwood, White, Trieu, Riley, Salter, Chang, Capnerhurst, Ho, Gunashanhar, Monk
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES