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Research article
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01 Dec 2020
Research article |
| 01 Dec 2020
| 01 Dec 2020
Air quality impact of the Northern California Camp Fire of November 2018
Brigitte Rooney
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
Jonathan H. Jiang
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Zhao-Cheng Zeng
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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Short summary
Wildfires have become increasingly prevalent. Intense smoke consisting of particulate matter (PM) leads to an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. The record-breaking Camp Fire ravaged Northern California for two weeks in 2018. Here, we employ a comprehensive chemical transport model along with ground-based and satellite observations to characterize the PM concentrations across Northern California and to investigate the pollution sensitivity predictions to key parameters of the model.
Wildfires have become increasingly prevalent. Intense smoke consisting of particulate matter...
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