"There is an immense lack of general understanding of the scope and advantages offered across various components of the modeling chain, starting with fire detection through emissions modeling, atmospheric transport, and constructing epidemiological models. The great proliferation of methods for each of the components is creating a wild west environment where it becomes increasingly challenging to evaluate the validity of reported results and thus leading to opaque science. Thus, this volume provides a synthesis effort distributed across all components of the modeling chain, which is necessary to build a community with a common understanding of the modeling potential and to promoting further scientific inquiry. Wildland Fire, Smoke, and Health focuses on a synthesis of activities across several disparate disciplines aimed at understanding health outcomes of wildland fire emissions (smoke)"--
A transdisciplinary approach to investigating relationships between biomass burning and human health outcomes 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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List of Contributors
Preface
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
Part I From Fires to Emissions
2. Biomass Burning as an Integral Force
Amber J. Soja, Emily M. Gargulinski, and Elizabeth B. Wiggins
3. Mapping and Characterizing Fire
Louis Giglio, David P. Roy, Michael L. Humber, Evan Ellicott, Maria Zubkova,
and Christopher O. Justice
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
5. Biomass Burning Fuel Consumption and Emissions for Air
Quality
Nancy H. F. French and Andrew T. Hudak
Part II From Emissions to Concentrations
6. Surface Monitoring of Fire Pollution
Allison E. Bredder
7. Data Assimilation for Numerical Smoke Prediction
Edward J. Hyer, Christopher P. Camacho, David A. Peterson, Elizabeth A.
Satterfield, and Pablo E. Saide
8. A Review of Modeling Approaches Used to Simulate Smoke
Transport and Dispersion
Derek V. Mallia and Adam K. Kochanski
9. Profiles of Operational and Research Forecasting of Smoke and
Air Quality Around the World
Susan M. ONeill, 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
Part III From Concentrations to Health Outcomes
10. Assessing Smoke Exposure in Space and Time
Patricia D. Koman and Nancy H. F. French
11. Wildfire Smoke Toxicology and Health
Luke Montrose, Adam Schuller, Savannah M. DEvelyn, and Christopher
Migliaccio
12. Wildfire Smoke Exposures and Adult Health Outcomes
Miriam E. Marlier, Natalie Crnosija, and Tarik Benmarhnia
13. Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke During Pregnancy and Childhood
Amy M. Padula and Camille Raynes-Greenow
14. State of the Science and Future Directions: From Biomass Fire to
Health Outcomes
Robin C. Puett, Nancy H. F. French, Tatiana V. Loboda
Tatiana V. Loboda, University of Maryland, USA
Nancy H. F. French, Michigan Technological University, USA
Robin C. Puett, University of Maryland, USA
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