Search Results - "Pierce, Jeffrey R"
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Contribution of Wildland-Fire Smoke to US PM2.5 and Its Influence on Recent Trends
Published in Environmental science & technology (19-02-2019)“…Seasonal-mean concentrations of particulate matter with diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) have been decreasing across the United States (US) for several…”
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Global Estimates and Long-Term Trends of Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations (1998–2018)
Published in Environmental science & technology (07-07-2020)“…Exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a leading risk factor for mortality. We develop global estimates of annual PM2.5 concentrations and…”
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Revisiting particle dry deposition and its role in radiative effect estimates
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-10-2020)“…Wet and dry deposition remove aerosols from the atmosphere, and these processes control aerosol lifetime and thus impact climate and air quality. Dry…”
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Recent advances in understanding secondary organic aerosol: Implications for global climate forcing
Published in Reviews of geophysics (1985) (01-06-2017)“…Anthropogenic emissions and land use changes have modified atmospheric aerosol concentrations and size distributions over time. Understanding preindustrial…”
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Aging Effects on Biomass Burning Aerosol Mass and Composition: A Critical Review of Field and Laboratory Studies
Published in Environmental science & technology (03-09-2019)“…Biomass burning is a major source of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) with impacts on health, climate, and air quality. The particles and vapors within…”
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Simultaneous influences of thermodynamics and aerosols on deep convection and lightning in the tropics
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres (27-06-2015)“…Convective features (CFs) observed by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite between 2004 and 2011 are analyzed to determine the relative roles of…”
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The contribution of organics to atmospheric nanoparticle growth
Published in Nature geoscience (01-07-2012)“…The growth of the smallest atmospheric particles to sizes at which they may act as seeds for cloud droplets is a key step linking aerosols to clouds and…”
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Oxygenated Aromatic Compounds are Important Precursors of Secondary Organic Aerosol in Biomass-Burning Emissions
Published in Environmental science & technology (21-07-2020)“…Biomass burning is the largest combustion-related source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to the atmosphere. We describe the development of a…”
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An evaluation of global organic aerosol schemes using airborne observations
Published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics (04-03-2020)“…Chemical transport models have historically struggled to accurately simulate the magnitude and variability of observed organic aerosol (OA), with previous…”
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The potential role of methanesulfonic acid (MSA) in aerosol formation and growth and the associated radiative forcings
Published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics (12-03-2019)“…Atmospheric marine aerosol particles impact Earth's albedo and climate. These particles can be primary or secondary and come from a variety of sources,…”
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Processes controlling the annual cycle of Arctic aerosol number and size distributions
Published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics (21-03-2016)“…Measurements at high-Arctic sites (Alert, Nunavut, and Mt. Zeppelin, Svalbard) during the years 2011 to 2013 show a strong and similar annual cycle in aerosol…”
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Rethinking Organic Aerosols: Semivolatile Emissions and Photochemical Aging
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (02-03-2007)“…Most primary organic-particulate emissions are semivolatile; thus, they partially evaporate with atmospheric dilution, creating substantial amounts of…”
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Environmental controls on storm intensity and charge structure in multiple regions of the continental United States
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres (16-07-2015)“…A database consisting of approximately 4000 storm observations has been objectively analyzed to determine environmental characteristics that produce high radar…”
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Characterization of organic aerosol across the global remote troposphere: a comparison of ATom measurements and global chemistry models
Published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics (21-04-2020)“…The spatial distribution and properties of submicron organic aerosol (OA) are among the key sources of uncertainty in our understanding of aerosol effects on…”
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Constraining uncertainties in particle-wall deposition correction during SOA formation in chamber experiments
Published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics (14-02-2017)“…The effect of vapor-wall deposition on secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation has gained significant attention; however, uncertainties in experimentally…”
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Effects of near-source coagulation of biomass burning aerosols on global predictions of aerosol size distributions and implications for aerosol radiative effects
Published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics (17-05-2019)“…Biomass burning is a significant global source of aerosol number and mass. In fresh biomass burning plumes, aerosol coagulation reduces aerosol number and…”
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Estimated Mortality and Morbidity Attributable to Smoke Plumes in the United States: Not Just a Western US Problem
Published in Geohealth (01-09-2021)“…As anthropogenic emissions continue to decline and emissions from landscape (wild, prescribed, and agricultural) fires increase across the coming century, the…”
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Global burden of mortalities due to chronic exposure to ambient PM2.5 from open combustion of domestic waste
Published in Environmental research letters (12-12-2016)“…Uncontrolled combustion of domestic waste has been observed in many countries, creating concerns for air quality; however, the health implications have not yet…”
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Reducing Aerosol Forcing Uncertainty by Combining Models With Satellite and Within-The-Atmosphere Observations: A Three-Way Street
Published in Reviews of geophysics (1985) (01-06-2023)“…Aerosol forcing uncertainty represents the largest climate forcing uncertainty overall. Its magnitude has remained virtually undiminished over the past 20…”
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Equilibration time scales of organic aerosol inside thermodenuders: Evaporation kinetics versus thermodynamics
Published in Atmospheric environment (1994) (01-02-2010)“…The interpretation of thermodenuder (TD) data often relies on the assumption that thermodynamic equilibrium is reached inside the instrument. We modeled the…”
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