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