Where and when wildfires occur, what pollutants they emit, how the chemistry of smoke changes in the atmosphere, and what impact this air pollution has on human health and well-being are questions explored across different scientific disciplines.
Landscape Fire, Smoke, and Health: Linking Biomass Burning Emissions to Human Well-Being is designed to create a foundational knowledge base allowing interdisciplinary teams to interact more effectively in addressing the impacts of air pollution from biomass burning on human health.
Volume highlights include:
- Core concepts, principles, and terminology related to smoke and air quality used in different disciplines
- Observational and modeling tools and approaches in fire science
- Methods to sense, model, and map smoke in the atmosphere
- Impacts of biomass burning smoke on the health and well-being of children and adults
- Perspectives from researchers, modelers, and practitioners
- Case studies from different countries
- Information to support decision-making and policy
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
Preface xi
Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii
1 Bridging Geophysical and Health Sciences to Study the Impacts of Biomass Burning on Human Well- Being
Tatiana V Loboda, Nancy H F French, and Robin C Puett 1
Part I From Fires to Emissions
2 Biomass Burning as an Integral Force
Amber J Soja, Emily M Gargulinski, and Elizabeth B Wiggins 9
3 Mapping and Characterizing Fire
Louis Giglio, David P Roy, Michael L Humber, Evan Ellicott, Maria Zubkova, and Christopher O Justice 37
4 Wildland Fuel Characterization Across Space and Time
Susan J Prichard, Eric Rowell, Robert E Keane, Andrew T Hudak, Duncan Lutes, and E Louise Loudermilk 53
5 Biomass Burning Fuel Consumption and Emissions for Air Quality
Nancy H F French and Andrew T Hudak 69
Part II From Emissions to Concentrations
6 Surface Monitoring of Fire Pollution
Allison E Bredder 91
7 Data Assimilation for Numerical Smoke Prediction
Edward J Hyer, Christopher P Camacho, David A Peterson, Elizabeth A Satterfield, and Pablo E Saide 105
8 A Review of Modeling Approaches Used to Simulate Smoke Transport and Dispersion
Derek V Mallia and Adam K Kochanski 127
9 Profiles of Operational and Research Forecasting of Smoke and Air Quality Around the World
Susan M O’Neill, Peng Xian, Johannes Flemming, Martin Cope, Alexander Baklanov, Narasimhan K Larkin, Joseph K Vaughan, Daniel Tong, Rosie Howard, Roland Stull, Didier Davignon, Ravan Ahmadov, M Talat Odman, John Innis, Merched Azzi, Christopher Gan, Radenko Pavlovic, Boon Ning Chew, Jeffrey S Reid, Edward J Hyer, Zak Kipling, Angela Benedetti, Peter R Colarco, Arlindo Da Silva, Taichu Tanaka, Jeffrey McQueen, Partha Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Guth, Nicole Asencio, Oriol Jorba, Carlos Perez Garcia- Pando, Rostislav Kouznetsov, Mikhail Sofiev, Melissa E Brooks, Jack Chen, Eric James, Fabienne Reisen, Alan Wain, Kerryn McTaggart, and Angus MacNeil 149
Part III From Concentrations to Health Outcomes
10 Assessing Smoke Exposure in Space and Time
Patricia D Koman and Nancy H F French 195
11 Wildfire Smoke Toxicology and Health
Luke Montrose, Adam Schuller, Savannah M D’Evelyn, and Christopher Migliaccio 217
12 Wildfire Smoke Exposures and Adult Health Outcomes
Miriam E Marlier, Natalie Crnosija, and Tarik Benmarhnia 233
13 Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke During Pregnancy and Childhood
Amy M Padula and Camille Raynes- Greenow 249
14 State of the Science and Future Directions: From Biomass Fire to Health Outcomes
Robin C Puett, Nancy H F French, and Tatiana V Loboda 265
Index 269
