TY - JOUR
T1 - Air pollutant emissions associated with forest, grassland, and agricultural burning in Texas
AU - Dennis, Ann
AU - Fraser, Matthew
AU - Anderson, Stephen
AU - Allen, David
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, through contract number 9880077600-05 with the University of Texas.
PY - 2002/8
Y1 - 2002/8
N2 - Outdoor fires, such as wildfires and prescribed burns, can emit substantial amounts of particulate matter and other pollutants into the atmosphere. In Texas, an inventory of forest, grassland and agricultural burning activities revealed that fires consumed vegetation on 1.6 and 1.7 million acres of land, in 1996 and 1997, respectively. Emissions from the fires were estimated based on survey and field data on acres burned and land cover and literature data on fuel consumption and emission factors. Fire data were allocated spatially by county and temporally by month. While fire events can cause high transient air pollutant concentrations, for most criteria pollutants, the fire emissions were a relatively small fraction of the annual emission inventory for the State. For fine particulate matter, however, the annual emission estimates were 40,000 tons/yr, which is likely to represent a significant fraction of the State's emission inventory, especially in the counties where the emissions are concentrated.
AB - Outdoor fires, such as wildfires and prescribed burns, can emit substantial amounts of particulate matter and other pollutants into the atmosphere. In Texas, an inventory of forest, grassland and agricultural burning activities revealed that fires consumed vegetation on 1.6 and 1.7 million acres of land, in 1996 and 1997, respectively. Emissions from the fires were estimated based on survey and field data on acres burned and land cover and literature data on fuel consumption and emission factors. Fire data were allocated spatially by county and temporally by month. While fire events can cause high transient air pollutant concentrations, for most criteria pollutants, the fire emissions were a relatively small fraction of the annual emission inventory for the State. For fine particulate matter, however, the annual emission estimates were 40,000 tons/yr, which is likely to represent a significant fraction of the State's emission inventory, especially in the counties where the emissions are concentrated.
KW - Criteria pollutants
KW - Emission inventory
KW - Fire
KW - Land cover
KW - Particulate matter
KW - Texas
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U2 - 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00219-4
DO - 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00219-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036695941
SN - 1352-2310
VL - 36
SP - 3779
EP - 3792
JO - Atmospheric Environment
JF - Atmospheric Environment
IS - 23
ER -