← Research Wildfire smoke and tropospheric ozone
Ozone harms human health and warms the atmosphere. As wildfires grow in frequency and intensity, their contribution to tropospheric ozone remains uncertain. Quantifying that impact requires understanding how ozone forms as smoke plumes age and how well global models capture that chemistry. My work in this area combines aircraft observations, global atmospheric chemistry modeling, and satellite remote sensing. I use in-situ measurements to characterize ozone production across the lifetime of smoke plumes, evaluate model representation of fire-ozone chemistry, and develop space-based frameworks to extend these constraints globally.
Related publications
- Palmo, J. O., Fiore A. M., Zhu, Q., Laughner, J. L., Wang, S., Jin, X., Heald, C. L., et al.
(2026), A Space-Based Framework for Characterizing Ozone Formation Chemistry in Wildfire Smoke Plumes, in preparation
- Palmo, J. O., C.L. Heald, D.R. Blake, I. Bourgeois, M. Coggon, J. Collett, F. Flocke, A. Fried, G. Gkatzelis, S. Hall, L. Hu, J.L. Jimenez, P. Campuzano-Jost, I-T. Ku, B. Nault, B. Palm, J. Peischl, I. Pollack, A. Sullivan, J. Thornton, C. Warneke, A. Wisthaler, and L. Xu
(2025), Investigating fire-induced ozone production from local to global scales, Atmos. Chem. Phys, 25, 17107-17124,
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17107-2025
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