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Research article
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03 Aug 2022
Research article |
| 03 Aug 2022
| 03 Aug 2022
Emissions of organic compounds from western US wildfires and their near-fire transformations
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management,
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Christos Stamatis
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and College of
Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT),
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92507, USA
now at: Charles E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Edward C. Fortner
Aerodyne Research, Inc., 45 Manning Road, Billerica, MA 01821, USA
Rebecca A. Wernis
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Paul Van Rooy
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and College of
Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT),
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92507, USA
Francesca Majluf
Aerodyne Research, Inc., 45 Manning Road, Billerica, MA 01821, USA
Tara I. Yacovitch
Aerodyne Research, Inc., 45 Manning Road, Billerica, MA 01821, USA
Conner Daube
Aerodyne Research, Inc., 45 Manning Road, Billerica, MA 01821, USA
Scott C. Herndon
Aerodyne Research, Inc., 45 Manning Road, Billerica, MA 01821, USA
Nathan M. Kreisberg
Aerosol Dynamics, Inc., Berkeley, CA 94710, USA
Kelley C. Barsanti
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and College of
Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT),
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92507, USA
Allen H. Goldstein
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management,
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Optical properties of biomass burning aerosol during the 2021 Oregon fire season: comparison between wild and prescribed fires A. Marsavin et al.
- Elucidating the Impact of Wildfire Molecular Tracers on Nitrous Acid (HONO) Production from Aqueous Nitrate Photochemistry K. Rojas García et al.
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- Wildfire smoke exposure and mortality burden in the USA under climate change M. Qiu et al.
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- Recent advances in mass spectrometry techniques for atmospheric chemistry research on molecular‐level W. Zhang et al.
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- Emission Factors From Wildfires in the Western US: An Investigation of Burning State, Ground Versus Air, and Diurnal Dependencies During the FIREX‐AQ 2019 Campaign M. Fiddler et al.
- Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX‐AQ) C. Warneke et al.
- Molecular composition and the impact of fuel moisture content on fresh primary organic aerosol emissions during laboratory combustion of ponderosa pine needles M. Jaoui et al.
- Light-absorbing black carbon and brown carbon components of smoke aerosol from DSCOVR EPIC measurements over North America and central Africa M. Choi et al.
- Characterizing PM2.5 Emissions and Temporal Evolution of Organic Composition from Incense Burning in a California Residence J. Ofodile et al.
- Downwind Fire and Smoke Detection during a Controlled Burn—Analyzing the Feasibility and Robustness of Several Downwind Wildfire Sensing Modalities through Real World Applications P. Chwalek et al.
- Evolution of Reactive Organic Compounds and Their Potential Health Risk in Wildfire Smoke H. Pye et al.
- Spatiotemporal variation characteristics of global fires and their emissions H. Fan et al.
- Chemical signatures of water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) fraction of long-range transported wildfire PM2.5 from Canada to the United States Mid-Atlantic region E. Olonimoyo et al.
- Multimodal Approach for Assessing Emissions and Transport of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants from the January 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires P. Vannucci et al.
- Emission of Hazardous Substances During Fires in Selected Facilities A. Rabajczyk et al.
- Multiparameter Detection of Summer Open Fire Emissions: The Case Study of GAW Regional Observatory of Lamezia Terme (Southern Italy) L. Malacaria et al.
- Combustion Temperature and Molecular Weight Fractionation Provide Insights into Soil-Derived Wildfire-impacted Disinfection Byproduct Precursors K. Hickenbottom et al.
- Seasonality and post fire recovery in a wetland dominated region: Insights from satellite data analysis in northern Argentina G. Saucedo & D. Kurtz
- The importance of burning conditions on the composition of domestic biomass-burning organic aerosol and the impact of atmospheric ageing R. Evans et al.
- Gas–particle partitioning of semivolatile organic compounds when wildfire smoke comes to town Y. Liang et al.
- Measurement report: Extreme heat and wildfire emissions enhance volatile organic compounds in a temperate forest C. Salvador et al.
- Brown carbon absorptivity in fresh wildfire smoke: associations with volatility and chemical compound groups N. Shetty et al.
- Ozonolysis of primary biomass burning organic aerosol particles: insights into reactivity and phase state S. Bogler et al.
- Molecular Properties of Brown Carbon Aerosol from Biomass Burning of Wildland Fuels at the Fire Sciences Laboratory L. Azzarello et al.
- Composition-Dependent Hygroscopicity of Local and Long-Range Wildfire Transported Smoke N. Raparthi et al.
- Optical properties of biomass burning aerosol during the 2021 Oregon fire season: comparison between wild and prescribed fires A. Marsavin et al.
- Elucidating the Impact of Wildfire Molecular Tracers on Nitrous Acid (HONO) Production from Aqueous Nitrate Photochemistry K. Rojas García et al.
- Comparing indoor and outdoor temperature and air pollution at an urban cooling center: a multiyear case study D. Mendoza et al.
- Wildfire smoke exposure and mortality burden in the USA under climate change M. Qiu et al.
- Effects of fuel types and fire severity on atmospheric pollutant emissions in an extreme wind-driven wildfire A. Alvarez et al.
- Recent advances in mass spectrometry techniques for atmospheric chemistry research on molecular‐level W. Zhang et al.
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This article reports the measurements of organic compounds emitted from western US wildfires. We identified and quantified 240 particle-phase compounds and 72 gas-phase compounds emitted in wildfire and related the emissions to the modified combustion efficiency. Higher emissions of diterpenoids and monoterpenes were observed, likely due to distillation from unburned heated vegetation. Our results can benefit future source apportionment and modeling studies as well as exposure assessments.
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