Evidence for impacts on surface-level air quality in the northeastern US from long-distance transport of smoke from North American fires during the Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS) 2018

Rogers, Haley M.; Ditto, Jenna C.; Gentner, Drew R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-671-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-671-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-671-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 2

Research article

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21 Jan 2020

Research article |

| 21 Jan 2020

Evidence for impacts on surface-level air quality in the northeastern US from long-distance transport of smoke from North American fires during the Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS) 2018

Haley M. Rogers, Jenna C. Ditto, and Drew R. Gentner

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-671-2020-supplement

Data sets

NASA ASCD Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Data Repository Ground-Yale-Coastal Data https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ArcView/listos?GROUND-YALE-COASTAL=1

Fire Products Archive NOAA https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/fire.html

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This study combines surface-level air quality measurements with satellite imagery and back-trajectory modeling to investigate the long-distance transport of these emissions to the New York City metropolitan area and the northeastern US. Two events in August 2018 were traced to biomass burning on the western coast of Canada and from the southeastern US, highlighting the importance of understanding long-distance transport of fire emissions in air quality planning.