Wildfire smoke plumes transport under a subsidence inversion: Climate and health implications in a distant urban area

Sci Total Environ. 2018 Apr 1:619-620:988-1002. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.142. Epub 2017 Nov 29.

Authors

Elisabeth Alonso-Blanco¹, Amaya Castro², Ana I Calvo², Veronique Pont³, Marc Mallet³, Roberto Fraile⁴

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology Research (CIEMAT), Department of the Environment, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
² Department of Physics (IMARENAB), University of León, 24071 León, Spain.
³ Laboratoire d'Aérologie/OMP, UMR 5560, Université de Toulouse III, CNRS-UPS, 14, av. E. Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France.
⁴ Department of Physics (IMARENAB), University of León, 24071 León, Spain. Electronic address: roberto.fraile@unileon.es.

PMID: 29734644
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.142

No abstract available

Keywords: Aerosol size distributions; Direct radiative forcing; Respirable fraction; Subsidence inversion; Wildfire.

MeSH terms

Air Pollution / statistics & numerical data*
Cities / statistics & numerical data
Climate
Environmental Exposure / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Meteorological Concepts*
Smoke / analysis*
Wildfires / statistics & numerical data*

Substances

Smoke