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Research article
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08 Nov 2021
Research article |
| 08 Nov 2021
| 08 Nov 2021
Nighttime and daytime dark oxidation chemistry in wildfire plumes: an observation and model analysis of FIREX-AQ aircraft data
Zachary C. J. Decker
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Co 80309, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0215, USA
Michael A. Robinson
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Co 80309, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0215, USA
Kelley C. Barsanti
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92507, USA
Ilann Bourgeois
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Co 80309, USA
Matthew M. Coggon
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Co 80309, USA
Joshua P. DiGangi
NASA Langley Research Center, MS 483, Hampton, VA 23681, USA
Glenn S. Diskin
NASA Langley Research Center, MS 483, Hampton, VA 23681, USA
Frank M. Flocke
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Alessandro Franchin
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Co 80309, USA
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Carley D. Fredrickson
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Georgios I. Gkatzelis
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Co 80309, USA
now at: Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Samuel R. Hall
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Hannah Halliday
NASA Langley Research Center, MS 483, Hampton, VA 23681, USA
now at: EPA Office of Research and Development, RTP, NC 27711, USA
Christopher D. Holmes
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32304, USA
L. Gregory Huey
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Young Ro Lee
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Jakob Lindaas
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Ann M. Middlebrook
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Denise D. Montzka
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Richard Moore
Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Hampton, VA 23666, USA
J. Andrew Neuman
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Co 80309, USA
John B. Nowak
Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Hampton, VA 23666, USA
Brett B. Palm
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
now at: Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Jeff Peischl
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Co 80309, USA
Felix Piel
Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
Pamela S. Rickly
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Co 80309, USA
Andrew W. Rollins
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Thomas B. Ryerson
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Rebecca H. Schwantes
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Co 80309, USA
Kanako Sekimoto
Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 236-0027, Japan
Lee Thornhill
NASA Langley Research Center, MS 483, Hampton, VA 23681, USA
Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Hampton, VA 23666, USA
Joel A. Thornton
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Geoffrey S. Tyndall
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Kirk Ullmann
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Paul Van Rooy
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92507, USA
Patrick R. Veres
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Carsten Warneke
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Co 80309, USA
Rebecca A. Washenfelder
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Andrew J. Weinheimer
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Elizabeth Wiggins
NASA Langley Research Center, MS 483, Hampton, VA 23681, USA
Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
Edward Winstead
NASA Langley Research Center, MS 483, Hampton, VA 23681, USA
Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Hampton, VA 23666, USA
Armin Wisthaler
Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
Caroline Womack
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Co 80309, USA
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO 80305, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0215, USA
Data sets
FIREX-AQ NASA https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/firex-aq/index.html
Model code and software
The Framework for 0-D Atmospheric Modeling (F0AM) v3.1 (https://github.com/AirChem/F0AM) G. M. Wolfe, M. R. Marvin, S. J. Roberts, K. R. Travis, and J. Liao https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3309-2016
Nighttime Chemical Transformation in Biomass Burning Plumes: A Box Model Analysis Initialized with Aircraft Observations (Supplement) Z. C. J. Decker, K. J. Zarzana, M. Coggon, K.-E. Min, I. Pollack, T. B. Ryerson, J. Peischl, P. Edwards, W. P. Dubé, M. Z. Markovic, J. M. Roberts, P. R. Veres, M. Graus, C. Warneke, J. de Gouw, L. E. Hatch, K. C. Barsanti, and S. S. Brown https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b05359
Short summary
To understand air quality impacts from wildfires, we need an accurate picture of how wildfire smoke changes chemically both day and night as sunlight changes the chemistry of smoke. We present a chemical analysis of wildfire smoke as it changes from midday through the night. We use aircraft observations from the FIREX-AQ field campaign with a chemical box model. We find that even under sunlight typical
nighttimechemistry thrives and controls the fate of key smoke plume chemical processes.
To understand air quality impacts from wildfires, we need an accurate picture of how wildfire...
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