Local and regional smoke impacts from prescribed fires

Price, Owen F.; Horsey, Bronwyn; Jiang, Ningbo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-2247-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-2247-2016

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14 Oct 2016

Research article |

| 14 Oct 2016

Local and regional smoke impacts from prescribed fires

Owen F. Price, Bronwyn Horsey, and Ningbo Jiang

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Final revised paper (published on 14 Oct 2016)
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RC1: 'Review of Local and regional smoke impacts from prescribed fires', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 May 2016
RC2: 'Good Summary of Potential Hazards from Prescribed Burns', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Jun 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to reviewer 2', O. Price, 20 Jul 2016
- AC2: 'Response to review 2', O. Price, 20 Jul 2016

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We measured particulate levels at distances ranging from 50 m to 20 km from two prescribed fires and compared the values to those predicted from an atmospheric dispersion model. The model performed well during the day but not for areas close to the fire (under 1 km), which experienced high pollution peaks and did not predict night-time pollution in one of the fires over an area of 120 000 ha caused by a temperature inversion.