Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
AC4 supported new research that points to significant secondary pollutants originating from wildfires and prescribed fires using data obtained during the FIREX-AQ field campaign.
FIREX-AQ Measurements Inform Better Air Pollutant Projection Read More »
Results from FIREX-AQ research supported by AC4 analyzes measurements from a ground-level mobile laboratory close to the fire source to show that wildfire emissions are vastly heterogeneous and have significant discrepancies when measured at ground-level compared to by aircraft.
A New Robust Wildfire Emissions Analysis from a Ground-Level Mobile Laboratory Read More »
A new study supported by AC4 compared both aircraft and ground-based FIREX-AQ measurements to find distinct aerosol processes with height, which cannot be fully characterized by observations from the ground.
Using FIREX-AQ Data to Learn More About Aerosols from Wildfires Read More »
A new study supported by AC4 uses FIREX-AQ and WE-CAN field campaign observations to demonstrate pollution processes that were missing in atmospheric models.
Finding Missing Sources of Abundant Atmospheric Pollutants Formic and Acetic Acid Read More »
A new fire emissions inventory supported by AC4 provides publicly available data on trace gases and aerosols from global fires for the years 2002 through 2021.
Updated Global Fire Emissions Model Read More »
New modeling study funded by AC4 uses a chemical transport model to evaluate commonly used volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions inventories and compare with observational datasets from the FIREX-AQ and WE-CAN field campaigns.
A team of researchers use observations from FIREX-AQ to quantify sulfur dioxide emissions from wildfires and agricultural burns across the western US to understand how regional and long-range air quality can be affected, in a new research study supported by AC4.
Using data from the FIREX-AQ field campaign, a new AC4-funded research study develops a comparison between aerosol concentration and the way aerosol particles scatter light in the atmosphere, offering new insights into wildfire smoke evolution.
A new AC4-funded publication utilizes FIREX-AQ observations to evaluate common modeling representations of wildfire smoke plumes and finds they can be improved by expanding the use of observations for heat flux and boundary layer height.
Identifying and Improving Wildfire Forecast Model Weaknesses Using FIREX-AQ Observations Read More »