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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-10985-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-10985-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
01 Oct 2024
Research article |
| 01 Oct 2024
| 01 Oct 2024
Occurrence, abundance, and formation of atmospheric tarballs from a wide range of wildfires in the western US
Department of Atmosphere, Ocean, and Earth System Modeling Research, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
Jack E. Dibb
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
Joseph M. Katich
Chemical Sciences Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
now at: BAE Systems, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, USA
Joshua P. Schwarz
Chemical Sciences Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Hongyu Guo
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Pedro Campuzano-Jost
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Jose L. Jimenez
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Jeff Peischl
Chemical Sciences Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Christopher D. Holmes
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
James Crawford
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Data sets
TEM data of tarballs from FIREX-AQ Kouji Adachi https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10751569
Short summary
We examined aerosol particles from wildfires and identified tarballs (TBs) from the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) campaign. This study reveals the compositions, abundance, sizes, and mixing states of TBs and shows that TBs formed as the smoke aged for up to 5 h. This study provides measurements of TBs from various biomass-burning events and ages, enhancing our knowledge of TB emissions and our understanding of their climate impact.
We examined aerosol particles from wildfires and identified tarballs (TBs) from the Fire...
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