Air Quality Impact of Record-Breaking Southern California Wildfires in December 2017: A Modeling Study

Yu Gu1, Hongrong Shi1, Bin Zhao1, Zhe Jiang1, Zhijin Li2, Yang Chen3, Jonathan H. Jiang4, Meemong Lee5, Kuo-Nan Liou1, Jessica L. Neu6, Vivienne Payne6, Hui Su7, Yuan Wang4,8, Marcin L Witek7 and John R Worden6, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States