Wildfire influences on the variability and trend of summer surface ozone in the mountainous western United States

Lu, Xiao; Zhang, Lin; Yue, Xu; Zhang, Jiachen; Jaffe, Daniel A.; Stohl, Andreas; Zhao, Yuanhong; Shao, Jingyuan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-14687-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-14687-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-14687-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 22

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24 Nov 2016

Research article |

| 24 Nov 2016

Wildfire influences on the variability and trend of summer surface ozone in the mountainous western United States

Xiao Lu, Lin Zhang, Xu Yue, Jiachen Zhang, Daniel A. Jaffe, Andreas Stohl, Yuanhong Zhao, and Jingyuan Shao

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Data sets

CASTNET EPA https://java.epa.gov/castnet/clearsession.do

AQS EPA https://www3.epa.gov/airdata/

IMPROVE IMPROVE http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/improve/

FAMWEB National Fire and Aviation Management https://fam.nwcg.gov/fam-web/

NCEP CFSR NCAR's RDA http://rda.ucar.edu/pub/cfsr.html

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Increasing wildfire activities in the mountainous western US may present a challenge for the region to attain a recently revised ozone air quality standard in summer. We quantify the wildfire influence on the ozone variability, trends, and number of high ozone days over this region in summers 1989–2010 using a Lagrangian dispersion model and statistical regression models.