Robert J. Yokelson

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated VOC emissions from 19 controlled laboratory fires at the USFS (United States Forest Service) Fire Sciences Laboratory and 16 fires during an intensive airborne field campaign during the peak of the burning season in Brazil in 2004.

TL;DR: Bertschi et al. as discussed by the authors adopted a working definition of residual smoldering combustion (RSC) as biomass combustion that produces emissions that are not lofted by strong fire-induced convection.

TL;DR: Exposure levels > 1 ppbv provide a direct source of isocyanic acid and cyanate ion (NCO-) to humans at levels that have recognized health effects: atherosclerosis, cataracts, and rheumatoid arthritis, through the mechanism of protein carbamylation.

TL;DR: In this paper, negative-ion proton-transfer chemical ionization mass spectrometry (NI-PT-CIMS), open-path Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (OP-FTIR), and Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometer (PTR-MS) were used to quantify gas-phase organic and inorganic acids.

TL;DR: In this paper, an extensive set of emission factors (EFs) for over 80 gases and 5 components of submicron particulate matter (PM_1) from three wildfires in the western U.S. were measured from aircraft during the Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC^4RS) and the Biomass Burning Observation Project (BBOP).