Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ)

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Authors

• Carsten Warneke, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Joshua P. Schwarz, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA
• Jack E. Dibb, University of New Hampshire, DurhamFollow
• Olga Kalashnikova, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Gregory Frost, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA
• Jassim Al-Saad, NASA Langley Research Center
• Steven S. Brown, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA
• Wm. Alan Brewer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA
• Amber Soja, NASA Langley Research Center
• Felix C. Seidel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Rebecca A. Washenfelder, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA
• Elizabeth B. Wiggins, NASA Langley Research Center
• Richard H. Moore, NASA Langley Research Center
• Bruce E. Anderson, NASA Langley Research Center
• Carolyn Jordan, NASA Langley Research Center
• Tara I. Yacovitch, Aerodyne Research Inc.
• Scott C. Herndon, Aerodyne Research Inc.
• Shang Liu, California Air Resource Board
• Toshihiro Kuwayama, California Air Resource Board
• Daniel Jaffe, University of Washington
• Nancy Johnston, Lewis-Clark State College
• Vanessa Selimovic, University of Montana
• Robert Yokelson, University of Montana
• David M. Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Brent N. Holben, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Philippe Goloub, Lille University
• Ioana Popovici, Lille University
• Michael Trainer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA
• Aditya Kumar, Space Science and Engineering Center
• R. Bradley Pierce, Space Science and Engineering Center
• David Fahey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA
• James Roberts, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
• Emily M. Gargulinski, National Institute of Aerospace
• David A. Peterson, Naval Research Laboratory
• Xinxin Ye, University of California Los Angeles
• Laura H. Thapa, University of California Los Angeles
• Pablo E. Saide, University of California Los Angeles
• Charles H. Fite, Florida State University
• Christopher D. Holmes, Florida State University
• Siyuan Wang, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
• Matthew M. Coggon, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
• Zachary C.J. Decker, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
• Chelsea E. Stockwell, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
• Lu Xu, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
• Georgios Gkatzelis, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
• Kenneth Aikin, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
• Barry Lefer, NASA Washington
• Jackson Kaspari, University of New Hampshire, Durham
• Debora Griffin, Environment and Climate Change Canada
• Linghan Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Rodney Weber, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Meredith Hastings, Brown University
• Jiajue Chai, Brown University
• Glenn M. Wolfe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Thomas F. Hanisco, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Jin Liao, University of Maryland College Park
• Pedro Campuzano Jost, University of Colorado Boulder
• Hongyu Guo, University of Colorado Boulder
• Jose L. Jimenez, University of Colorado Boulder
• James Crawford, NASA Langley Research Center

Abstract

The NOAA/NASA Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) experiment was a multi-agency, inter-disciplinary research effort to: (a) obtain detailed measurements of trace gas and aerosol emissions from wildfires and prescribed fires using aircraft, satellites and ground-based instruments, (b) make extensive suborbital remote sensing measurements of fire dynamics, (c) assess local, regional, and global modeling of fires, and (d) strengthen connections to observables on the ground such as fuels and fuel consumption and satellite products such as burned area and fire radiative power. From Boise, ID western wildfires were studied with the NASA DC-8 and two NOAA Twin Otter aircraft. The high-altitude NASA ER-2 was deployed from Palmdale, CA to observe some of these fires in conjunction with satellite overpasses and the other aircraft. Further research was conducted on three mobile laboratories and ground sites, and 17 different modeling forecast and analyses products for fire, fuels and air quality and climate implications. From Salina, KS the DC-8 investigated 87 smaller fires in the Southeast with remote and in-situ data collection. Sampling by all platforms was designed to measure emissions of trace gases and aerosols with multiple transects to capture the chemical transformation of these emissions and perform remote sensing observations of fire and smoke plumes under day and night conditions. The emissions were linked to fuels consumed and fire radiative power using orbital and suborbital remote sensing observations collected during overflights of the fires and smoke plumes and ground sampling of fuels.

Department

Earth Systems Research Center

Publication Date

12-30-2022

Journal Title

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Publisher

AGU

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037758

Document Type

Article

Recommended Citation

Warneke, C., J. P. Schwarz, J. E. Dibb, O. V. Kalashnikova, G. J. Frost, J. A. Al-Saadi, S. S. S. Brown, A. Brewer, A. J. Soja, F. C. Seidel, R. A. Washenfelder, E. B. Wiggins, R. H. Moore, B. E. Anderson, C. Jordan, T. I. Yacovitch, S. C. Herndon. S. Liu, T. Kuwayama, D. Jaffe, N. A. C. Johnston, V. Selimovic, R. J. Yokelson, D. M. Giles, B. N. Holben, P. Goloub, I. Popovici, M. K. Trainer, A. Kumar, R. B. Pierce, D. W. Fahey, J. M. Roberts, E. M. Gargulinski, D. Peterson, X. Ye, L. H. Thapa, P. E. Saide, C. H. Fite, C. D. Holmes, S. Wang, M. M. Coggon, Z. C. J. Decker, C. E. Stockwell, L. Xu, G. Gkatzelis, K. C. Aikin, B. L. Lefer, J. H. Kaspari, D. Griffin, L. Zeng, R. J. Weber, M. G. Hastings, J. Chai, G. Wolfe, T. F. Hanisco, J. Liao, P. Campuzano-Jost, H. Guo, J. L. Jimenez, and J. H. Crawford (2023), Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ), Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, doi:10.1029/2022JD037758.

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Comments

This is an open access article published by AGU in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres in 2024, available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037758