Fires emit sufficient sulfur to affect local and regional air quality and climate. This study analyzes SO2 emission factors and variability in smoke plumes from US wildfires and agricultural fires, as well as their relationship to sulfate and hydroxymethanesulfonate (HMS) formation. Observed SO2 emission factors for various fuel types show good agreement with the latest reviews of biomass burning emission factors, producing an emission factor range of 0.47–1.2 g SO2 kg−1 C. These emission factors vary with geographic location in a way that suggests that deposition of coal burning emissions and application of sulfur-containing fertilizers likely play a role in the larger observed values, which are primarily associated with agricultural burning. A 0-D box model
Emission factors and evolution of SO2 measured from biomass burning in wildfires and agricultural fires
Rickly, P., H. Guo, P. Campuzano Jost, J.L. Jimenez-Palacios, G.M. Wolfe, J.R. Bennett, I.E.V. Bourgeois, J.D. Crounse, J.E. Dibb, J.P. DiGangi, G.S. Diskin, M. Dollner , E. Gargulinski, S.R. Hall, H.S. Halliday, T.F. Hanisco, R.A. Hannun, J. Liao, R. Moore, B.A. Nault, J.B. Nowak, J.W. Peischl, C.E. Robinson, T.B. Ryerson, K. Sanchez, M. Schöberl, A. Soja, J.M. St. Clair, K.L. Thornhill, K.L. Ullmann, P. Wennberg, B.B. Weinzierl, E.B. Wiggins, E.L. Winstead, and A.W. Rollins (2023), Emission factors and evolution of SO2 measured from biomass burning in wildfires and agricultural fires, Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-22-15603-2022.
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