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Exciting first, first-author pub from @colourless-cloud.bsky.social exploring the long-term impacts of wildfire events on PAH profiles in surface grime, published in the ES&T special issue "Wildland Fires: Emissions, Chemistry, Contamination, Climate, and Human Health.”
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Wildfire Smoke Contributions to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Loadings in Western Canadian Urban Surface Grime
Wildfires emit large amounts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) into the atmosphere. As PAHs emitted from anthropogenic sources are known to accumulate in urban surface grime present on buildi...