Landscape Fire, Smoke, and Health

Tatiana V. Loboda, University of Maryland, USA.Nancy H. F. French, Michigan Technological University, USA.Robin C. Puett, University of Maryland, USA.

• List of Contributors viiPreface xiAcronyms and Abbreviations xiii1 Bridging Geophysical and Health Sciences to Study the Impacts of Biomass Burning on Human Well- BeingTatiana V Loboda, Nancy H F French, and Robin C Puett 1Part I From Fires to Emissions2 Biomass Burning as an Integral ForceAmber J Soja, Emily M Gargulinski, and Elizabeth B Wiggins 93 Mapping and Characterizing FireLouis Giglio, David P Roy, Michael L Humber, Evan Ellicott, Maria Zubkova, and Christopher O Justice 374 Wildland Fuel Characterization Across Space and TimeSusan J Prichard, Eric Rowell, Robert E Keane, Andrew T Hudak, Duncan Lutes, and E Louise Loudermilk 535 Biomass Burning Fuel Consumption and Emissions for Air QualityNancy H F French and Andrew T Hudak 69Part II From Emissions to Concentrations6 Surface Monitoring of Fire PollutionAllison E Bredder 917 Data Assimilation for Numerical Smoke PredictionEdward J Hyer, Christopher P Camacho, David A Peterson, Elizabeth A Satterfield, and Pablo E Saide 1058 A Review of Modeling Approaches Used to Simulate Smoke Transport and DispersionDerek V Mallia and Adam K Kochanski 1279 Profiles of Operational and Research Forecasting of Smoke and Air Quality Around the WorldSusan M O’Neill, 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 149Part III From Concentrations to Health Outcomes10 Assessing Smoke Exposure in Space and TimePatricia D Koman and Nancy H F French 19511 Wildfire Smoke Toxicology and HealthLuke Montrose, Adam Schuller, Savannah M D’Evelyn, and Christopher Migliaccio 21712 Wildfire Smoke Exposures and Adult Health OutcomesMiriam E Marlier, Natalie Crnosija, and Tarik Benmarhnia 23313 Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke During Pregnancy and ChildhoodAmy M Padula and Camille Raynes- Greenow 24914 State of the Science and Future Directions: From Biomass Fire to Health OutcomesRobin C Puett, Nancy H F French, and Tatiana V Loboda 265Index 269