Quantifying Prescribed-Fire Smoke Exposure Using Low-Cost Sensors and Satellites: Springtime Burning in Eastern Kansas.

ABSTRACT: Prescribed fires (fires intentionally set for mitigation purposes) produce pollutants, which have negative effects on human and animal health. One of the pollutants produced from fires is fine particulate matter (PM_2.5). The Flint Hills (FH) region of Kansas experiences extensive prescribed burning each spring (March-May). Smoke from prescribed fires is often understudied due to a lack of monitoring in the rural regions where prescribed burning occurs, as well as the short duration and small size of the fires. Our goal was to attribute PM_2.5 concentrations to the prescribed burning in the FH. To determine PM_2.5 increases from local burning, we used low-cost PM_2.5 sensors (PurpleAir) and satellite observations. The FH were also affected by smoke t

SUBMITTER: Sablan O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10975953 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature