Working Group Focus

Identify and update important chemical processes occurring after the emission of wildfire smoke.

Led by

  • Stephanie Schneider, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
  • Chunmao Zhu, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
  • Deepchandra Srivastava, University of Cambridge, UK

Goal

  • Review paper on tropospheric ozone production from fires, in revision.

Community Interests

  • Ozone creation, what are the main drivers in the plume
  • Quantify the importance of HONO
  • Interacting urban and wildfire pollution
  • Brown carbon and aging

Email BBURNED@igacproject.org with the Subject line "Chemistry WG input" if you have additional ideas.