Articles | Volume 22, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8009-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-8009-2022
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21 Jun 2022
Research article |  | 21 Jun 2022

Characteristics and evolution of brown carbon in western United States wildfires

Linghan Zeng, Jack Dibb, Eric Scheuer, Joseph M. Katich, Joshua P. Schwarz, Ilann Bourgeois, Jeff Peischl, Tom Ryerson, Carsten Warneke, Anne E. Perring, Glenn S. Diskin, Joshua P. DiGangi, John B. Nowak, Richard H. Moore, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, Demetrios Pagonis, Hongyu Guo, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Jose L. Jimenez, Lu Xu, and Rodney J. Weber

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NOAA/NASA FIREX-AQ data archive NASA https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/firex-aq/

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Wildfires emit aerosol particles containing brown carbon material that affects visibility and global climate and is toxic. Brown carbon is poorly characterized due to measurement limitations, and its evolution in the atmosphere is not well known. We report on aircraft measurements of brown carbon from large wildfires in the western United States. We compare two methods for measuring brown carbon and study the evolution of brown carbon in the smoke as it moved away from the burning regions.
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