Air Quality Impacts during the 2015 Rough Fire in Areas Surrounding the Sierra Nevada, California
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Location Time Frame
2.2. Air Quality Data
2.3. Air Quality Index
3. Results
Smoke Impacts on PM2.5 Concentrations
4. Discussion
4.1. Case-Crossover Analysis
4.2. Smoke Management Implications
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Sampling Stations | Pre-Wildfire (1st June to 30th July) | During-Wildfire (31st July to 2nd October) | ||||||||||||
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N | Mean (SD) | Min | Percentile | Max | N | Mean (SD) | Min | Percentile | Max | |||||
25 | 50 | 75 | 25 | 50 | 75 | |||||||||
Sierra Nevada (North) | ||||||||||||||
North-Fork | 41 | 14 (12) | 6 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 50 | 64 | 19 (14) | 5 | 8 | 12 | 24 | 55 |
Yosemite | 60 | 7 (3) | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 64 | 17 (27) | 2 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 165 |
Prather | 2 | 11 (0.2) | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 64 | 18 (16) | 4 | 9 | 11 | 22 | 99 |
Trimmer | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 52 | 24 (19) | 4 | 11 | 15 | 33 | 89 |
Sierra Nevada (Central) | ||||||||||||||
Ash Mountain | 58 | 9 (3) | 3 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 51 | 16 (12) | 3 | 8 | 12 | 19 | 62 |
Pinehurst | 60 | 8 (2) | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 62 | 21 (17) | 6 | 10 | 11 | 30 | 53 |
Wishon | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 28 | 70 (54) | 9 | 18 | 67 | 114 | 204 |
Cedar Grove | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 47 | 99 (94) | 10 | 19 | 53 | 175 | 381 |
Hume Lake | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 37 | 128 (138) | 7 | 22 | 58 | 198 | 545 |
Sierra Nevada (South) | ||||||||||||||
Springville | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 20 | 9 (3) | 6 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 18 |
Kernville | 60 | 10 (1) | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 52 | 14 (6) | 6 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 38 |
Camp Nelson | 0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 21 | 12 (5) | 5 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 27 |
Sierra Nevada (East) | ||||||||||||||
Bishop | 60 | 6 (3) | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 64 | 14 (17) | 2 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 97 |
Devils Postpile | 42 | 11 (9) | 4 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 55 | 62 | 15 (12) | 3 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 70 |
Lone Pine | 60 | 7 (2) | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 64 | 9 (5) | 4 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 27 |
Central Valley (North) | ||||||||||||||
Clovis | 60 | 13 (4) | 6 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 21 | 64 | 15 (6) | 4 | 11 | 14 | 19 | 34 |
Fresno | 60 | 8 (3) | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 60 | 11 (5) | 3 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 25 |
Madera | 60 | 11 (2) | 6 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 64 | 11 (5) | 3 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 27 |
Merced | 50 | 9 (3) | 4 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 64 | 12 (6) | 4 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 40 |
Central Valley (South) | ||||||||||||||
Hanford | 60 | 9 (3) | 4 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 20 | 64 | 12 (6) | 4 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 32 |
Porterville | 35 | 8 (3) | 4 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 60 | 13 (6) | 6 | 9 | 11 | 16 | 37 |
Visalia | 51 | 9 (3) | 4 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 17 | 60 | 14 (10) | 3 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 58 |
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Cisneros, R.; Schweizer, D.; Gharibi, H.; Tavallali, P.; Veloz, D.; Navarro, K. Air Quality Impacts during the 2015 Rough Fire in Areas Surrounding the Sierra Nevada, California. Fire 2021, 4, 31. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4030031
Cisneros R, Schweizer D, Gharibi H, Tavallali P, Veloz D, Navarro K. Air Quality Impacts during the 2015 Rough Fire in Areas Surrounding the Sierra Nevada, California. Fire. 2021; 4(3):31. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4030031
Chicago/Turabian StyleCisneros, Ricardo, Donald Schweizer, Hamed Gharibi, Pooya Tavallali, David Veloz, and Kathleen Navarro. 2021. "Air Quality Impacts during the 2015 Rough Fire in Areas Surrounding the Sierra Nevada, California" Fire 4, no. 3: 31. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4030031
APA StyleCisneros, R., Schweizer, D., Gharibi, H., Tavallali, P., Veloz, D., & Navarro, K. (2021). Air Quality Impacts during the 2015 Rough Fire in Areas Surrounding the Sierra Nevada, California. Fire, 4(3), 31. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4030031