Impact of Landes forest fires on air quality in France during the 2022 summer

Menut, Laurent; Cholakian, Arineh; Siour, Guillaume; Lapere, Rémy; Pennel, Romain; Mailler, Sylvain; Bessagnet, Bertrand

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7281-2023

Articles | Volume 23, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7281-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7281-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 13

Research article

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04 Jul 2023

Research article |

| 04 Jul 2023

Impact of Landes forest fires on air quality in France during the 2022 summer

Laurent Menut, Arineh Cholakian, Guillaume Siour, Rémy Lapere, Romain Pennel, Sylvain Mailler, and Bertrand Bessagnet

Data sets

The CHIMERE chemistry-transport model v2020 LMD/IPSL https://doi.org/10.14768/8afd9058-909c-4827-94b8-69f05f7bb46d

Model code and software

The CHIMERE chemistry-transport model v2020 LMD/IPSL https://doi.org/10.14768/8afd9058-909c-4827-94b8-69f05f7bb46d

Short summary

This study is about the wildfires occurring in France during the summer 2022. We study the forest fires that took place in the Landes during the summer of 2022. We show the direct impact of these fires on the air quality, especially downstream of the smoke plume towards the Paris region. We quantify the impact of these fires on the pollutants peak concentrations and the possible exceedance of thresholds.