Performance of Vehicle Add-on Mobile Monitoring System PM_2.5 measurements during wildland fire episodes.

ABSTRACT: Fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) resulting from wildland fire is a significant public health risk in the United States (U.S.). The existing stationary monitoring network and the tools used to alert the public of smoke conditions, such as the Air Quality Index or NowCast, are not optimized to capture actual exposure concentrations in impacted communities given that wildland fire smoke plumes have characteristically steep exposure concentration gradients that can vary over fine spatiotemporal scales. In response, we developed and evaluated a lightweight, universally attachable mobile PM_2.5 monitoring system to provide supplemental, real-time air quality information during wildfire incidents and prescribed burning activities. We retroactively assessed the performance of t

SUBMITTER: Bittner AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11406472 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature