Impact of wildfire on particulate matter in the southeastern United States in November 2016.

ABSTRACT: In November 2016, a large area of wildfire occurred in the southeastern United States, concomitant with the occurrence of severe drought during the same period. Whereas the previous studies on biomass burning over this region mainly focused on the prescribed fire, this study investigated the impact of wildfire using the two-way-coupled Weather Research and Forecasting model and Community Multiscale Air Quality model. Two episodic wildfire burning events (November 6 to 9 and November 13 to 16, 2016) were selected, and the mean contribution to fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) in the southeastern United States from wildfires reached 9.6 to 42.5 μg m^-3 and 10.9 to 26.1 μg m^-3, with mean relative contributions of 41% and 49%, respectively, during these two events

SUBMITTER: Guan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8058695 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature