Assessing formic and acetic acid emissions and chemistry in western U.S. wildfire smoke: implications for atmospheric modeling

Wade Permar, Catherine Wielgasz, Lixu Jin, Xin Chen, Matthew M. Coggon, Lauren A. Garofalo, Georgios I. Gkatzelis, Damien Ketcherside, Dylan B. Millet, Brett B. Palm,

Environmental Science Atmospheres · 2023 · 16 citations · 91 references

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Rapid production of formic acid in biomass burning smoke is not captured by the Master Chemical Mechanism (MCM) nor simplified GEOS-Chem chemistry, likely due to missing secondary chemical production.

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