Observational Constraints for Prediction of Wildfire Impacts on Air Quality in the United States

Ivanka Stajner1, Jeffrey McQueen2, Jian-Ping Huang1,3, Ho-Chun Huang1,3, Kai Wang1,3, Hsin-mu Lin1,3, Shelley Melshior1, Cory Martin4, Raffaele Montuoro5, Barry Baker6, Daniel Tong7, Patrick C Campbell6,8, Georg A Grell9, Hongli Wang10, Ruifang Li11, Gregory J Frost12, Rebecca Schwantes13, Siyuan Wang11,14, James M Wilczak15, Irina Djalalova16 and Shobha Kondragunta17, (1)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, United States, (2)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (3)IMSG, College Park, United States, (4)NOAA, College Park, United States, (5)NOAA NCEP/EMC, College Park, United States, (6)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, Chemical Modeling and Emissions Group, College Park, United States, (7)George Mason University Foundation Inc., Columbia, United States, (8)George Mason University, Fairfax, United States, (9)NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)CIRES, Boulder, United States, (12)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, United States, (13)NOAA ESRL, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (14)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (15)NOAA/OAR/PSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)CIRES and NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (17)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States