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Deterioration of air quality associated with the 2020 US wildfires

Year of Publication
2023
Publication Type
The wildfires of August and September 2020 in the western part of the United States were characterized by an unparalleled duration and wide geographical coverage. A particular consequence of massive wildfires includes serious health effects due to short and long-term exposure to poor air quality.

Quantifying burned area of wildfires in the western United States from polar-orbiting and geostationary satellite active-fire detections

Year of Publication
2023
Publication Type

Background: Accurately estimating burned area from satellites is key to improving biomass burning emission models, studying fire evolution and assessing environmental impacts. Previous studies have found that current methods for estimating burned area of fires from satellite active-fire data do not always provide an accurate estimate.

Modern Pyromes: Biogeographical Patterns of Fire Characteristics across the Contiguous United States

Year of Publication
2022
Publication Type

In recent decades, wildfires in many areas of the United States (U.S.) have become larger and more frequent with increasing anthropogenic pressure, including interactions between climate, land-use change, and human ignitions. We aimed to characterize the spatiotemporal patterns of contemporary fire characteristics across the contiguous United States (CONUS).