ArticleNature communications2022
New seasonal pattern of pollution emerges from changing North American wildfires.
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- Quantifying fire-specific smoke exposure and health impacts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Remote sensing and model analysis of biomass burning smoke transported across the Atlantic during the 2020 Western US wildfire season.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Within-City Variation in Ambient Carbon Monoxide Concentrations: Leveraging Low-Cost Monitors in a Spatiotemporal Modeling Framework.Environmental health perspectives · 2022Article
- New seasonal pattern of pollution emerges from changing North American wildfires.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
Rising emissions from wildfires over recent decades in the Pacific Northwest are known to counteract the reductions in human-produced aerosol pollution over North America. Since amplified Pacific Northwest wildfires are predicted under accelerating climate change, it is essential to understand both local and transported contributions to air pollution in North America. Here, we find corresponding increases for carbon monoxide emitted from the Pacific Northwest wildfires and observe significant impacts on both local and down-wind air pollution. Between 2002 and 2018, the Pacific Northwest atmospheric carbon monoxide abundance increased in August, while other months showed decreasing carbon monoxide, so modifying the seasonal pattern. These seasonal pattern changes extend over large regions of North America, to the Central USA and Northeast North America regions, indicating that transported wildfire pollution could potentially impact the health of millions of people.
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