Fire and Smoke: Biomass Burning Emissions, Chemical Evolution, and Impacts on Air Quality and Climate
Fire and Smoke: Biomass Burning Emissions, Chemical Evolution, and Impacts on Air Quality and Climate
Session ID#: 122843
Session Description:
Biomass burning emissions from wildfires and agricultural burning remain poorly constrained and impact the atmosphere in complex ways. Smoke affects atmospheric composition, chemistry, air quality, public health, weather, and climate, with spatial scales that range from local to global. Recent laboratory, field, remote sensing, and modeling studies provide a better understanding of biomass burning emissions and their chemical evolution and transport, air quality implications, and climate impacts. We welcome presentations related to atmospheric sciences, that investigate smoke dependencies on fuels and fuel consumption, chemical and physical processes of biomass burning, and their implications for local, regional and global atmospheric composition. This includes studies based on laboratory experiments, field campaigns, satellite retrievals, and modeling efforts over all temporal and spatial scales and any geographical region.
Index Terms:
0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0325 Evolution of the atmosphere [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0368 Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
Primary Convener: Pablo E Saide, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners: Rebecca A Washenfelder, NOAA ESRL, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Elizabeth Brooke Wiggins, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States; NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Chelsea Stockwell, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States; NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison: Pablo E Saide, University of California Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES), Los Angeles, CA, United States
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