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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17107-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17107-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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28 Nov 2025
Research article |
| 28 Nov 2025
| 28 Nov 2025
Investigating fire-induced ozone production from local to global scales
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Colette L. Heald
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Donald R. Blake
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
Ilann Bourgeois
Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, INRAE, CARRTEL, Thonon-les-Bains, France
Matthew Coggon
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO, USA
Jeff Collett
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Frank Flocke
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA
Alan Fried
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Georgios Gkatzelis
Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8: Troposphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Samuel Hall
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
Jose L. Jimenez
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Pedro Campuzano-Jost
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
I-Ting Ku
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Benjamin Nault
Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
CACC, Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, USA
Brett Palm
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA
Jeff Peischl
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Ilana Pollack
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO, USA
Amy Sullivan
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Joel Thornton
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Carsten Warneke
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO, USA
Armin Wisthaler
Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
Data sets
geoschem/geos-chem: GEOS-Chem 14.3.0 (14.3.0) Bob Yantosca et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10640383
Model code and software
joepalmo/O3Fire_paper: Palmo et al. 2025 (code and data) (v1.0.0) Joe Palmo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17127240
Short summary
This study investigates ozone production within wildfire smoke plumes as they age, using both aircraft observations and models. We find that the chemical environment and resulting ozone production within smoke changes as plumes evolve, with implications for climate and public health.
This study investigates ozone production within wildfire smoke plumes as they age, using both...
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