Impact of 2050 climate change on North American wildfire: Consequences for ozone air quality

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 10033-10055

  Yue, X ^a,c   Mickley, L J ^a   Logan, J A ^a   Hudman, R C ^a,d   Martin, M V ^b   Yantosca, R M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ECOREGION; FOREST FIRE; OZONE; WILDFIRE;

ALASKA; CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941248484     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-10033-2015     Document Type: Article

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