Connecting smoke plumes to sources using Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke and fire location data over North America
Fires represent an air quality challenge because they are large, dynamic and transient sources of particulate matter and ozone precursors. Transported smoke can deteriorate air quality over large regions. Fire severity and frequency are likely to increase in the future, exacerbating an existing prob...
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ftnonlinearchiv:oai:noa.gwlb.de:cop_mods_00041973 2023-05-15T17:46:45+02:00 Connecting smoke plumes to sources using Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke and fire location data over North America Brey, Steven J. Ruminski, Mark Atwood, Samuel A. Fischer, Emily V. 2018-02 electronic https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1745-2018 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00041973 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00041593/acp-18-1745-2018.pdf https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/18/1745/2018/acp-18-1745-2018.pdf eng eng Copernicus Publications Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics -- http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/volumes_and_issues.html -- http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?2069847 -- 1680-7324 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1745-2018 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00041973 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00041593/acp-18-1745-2018.pdf https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/18/1745/2018/acp-18-1745-2018.pdf uneingeschränkt info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article Verlagsveröffentlichung article Text doc-type:article 2018 ftnonlinearchiv https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1745-2018 2022-02-08T22:41:18Z Fires represent an air quality challenge because they are large, dynamic and transient sources of particulate matter and ozone precursors. Transported smoke can deteriorate air quality over large regions. Fire severity and frequency are likely to increase in the future, exacerbating an existing problem. Using the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke data for North America for the period 2007 to 2014, we examine a subset of fires that are confirmed to have produced sufficient smoke to warrant the initiation of a U.S. National Weather Service smoke forecast. We find that gridded HMS-analyzed fires are well correlated (r= 0.84) with emissions from the Global Fire Emissions Inventory Database 4s (GFED4s). We define a new metric, smoke hours, by linking observed smoke plumes to active fires using ensembles of forward trajectories. This work shows that the Southwest, Northwest, and Northwest Territories initiate the most air quality forecasts and produce more smoke than any other North American region by measure of the number of HYSPLIT points analyzed, the duration of those HYSPLIT points, and the total number of smoke hours produced. The average number of days with smoke plumes overhead is largest over the north-central United States. Only Alaska, the Northwest, the Southwest, and Southeast United States regions produce the majority of smoke plumes observed over their own borders. This work moves a new dataset from a daily operational setting to a research context, and it demonstrates how changes to the frequency or intensity of fires in the western United States could impact other regions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Territories Alaska Niedersächsisches Online-Archiv NOA Northwest Territories Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18 3 1745 1761 |
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Fires represent an air quality challenge because they are large, dynamic and transient sources of particulate matter and ozone precursors. Transported smoke can deteriorate air quality over large regions. Fire severity and frequency are likely to increase in the future, exacerbating an existing problem. Using the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke data for North America for the period 2007 to 2014, we examine a subset of fires that are confirmed to have produced sufficient smoke to warrant the initiation of a U.S. National Weather Service smoke forecast. We find that gridded HMS-analyzed fires are well correlated (r= 0.84) with emissions from the Global Fire Emissions Inventory Database 4s (GFED4s). We define a new metric, smoke hours, by linking observed smoke plumes to active fires using ensembles of forward trajectories. This work shows that the Southwest, Northwest, and Northwest Territories initiate the most air quality forecasts and produce more smoke than any other North American region by measure of the number of HYSPLIT points analyzed, the duration of those HYSPLIT points, and the total number of smoke hours produced. The average number of days with smoke plumes overhead is largest over the north-central United States. Only Alaska, the Northwest, the Southwest, and Southeast United States regions produce the majority of smoke plumes observed over their own borders. This work moves a new dataset from a daily operational setting to a research context, and it demonstrates how changes to the frequency or intensity of fires in the western United States could impact other regions. |
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Connecting smoke plumes to sources using Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke and fire location data over North America |
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Connecting smoke plumes to sources using Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke and fire location data over North America |
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Connecting smoke plumes to sources using Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke and fire location data over North America |
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Connecting smoke plumes to sources using Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke and fire location data over North America |
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Connecting smoke plumes to sources using Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke and fire location data over North America |
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connecting smoke plumes to sources using hazard mapping system (hms) smoke and fire location data over north america |
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