ArticleScientific reports2022
Wildfire plumes in the Western US are reaching greater heights and injecting more aerosols aloft as wildfire activity intensifies.
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- Radiative impact of record-breaking wildfires from integrated ground-based data.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Constraints on the modeled vertical distribution of smoke during the 2020 western US wildfires from satellite data.NPJ clean air · 2025Article
- A Comparative Analysis of Satellite-Derived CO Retrievals During the 2020 Wildfires in North America.Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres : JGR · 2024Article
- Influence of an extreme event-the COVID-19 pandemic-On establishment of and data collection by a citizen science project.PloS one · 2024Article
- 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
- The Effects of Wildfire Smoke on Asthma and Allergy.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2023Review
- Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States.Communications earth & environment · 2023Article
- Understanding the Evolution of Smoke Mass Extinction Efficiency Using Field Campaign Measurements.Geophysical research letters · 2022Article
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Abstract
By producing a first-of-its-kind, decadal-scale wildfire plume rise climatology in the Western U.S. and Canada, we identify trends toward enhanced plume top heights, aerosol loading aloft, and near-surface smoke injection throughout the American West. Positive and significant plume trends suggest a growing impact of Western US wildfires on air quality at the local to continental scales and support the notion that wildfires may have an increasing impact on regional climate. Overlap of identified trends with regions of increasing wildfire emissions and burn severity suggests a link to climate driven trends toward enhanced wildfire activity. Further, time series of plume activity point to a possible acceleration of trends over recent years, such that the future impacts to air quality and regional climate may exceed those suggested by a linear fit to the multi-decadal data. These findings have significant implications for human health and exacerbate concern for the climate-wildfire connection.
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