Wildfire pollution widespread.
Research by the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a non-governmental U.S.-based institute whose stated mission is "exploring and understanding our atmosphere and its interactions with the Sun, the oceans, the biosphere, and human society. in the 14 June 2005 issue of Geophysical Research Letters Geophysical Research Letters is a publication of the American Geophysical Union. GRL is the organization's only letters journal. Since its introduction in 1974, GRL has published only short research letters, typically 3-5 pages long, which focus on a specific discipline or shows that particularly intense wildfires in Alaska and Canada during the summer of 2004 emitted as much carbon monoxide carbon monoxide, chemical compound, CO, a colorless, odorless, tasteless, extremely poisonous gas that is less dense than air under ordinary conditions. It is very slightly soluble in water and burns in air with a characteristic blue flame, producing carbon dioxide; as human activities in the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. during the same period. The fires also boosted ground-level ozone across the northern continental United States, even increasing levels of this pollutant by 10% as far away as Europe. The researchers used a novel combination of satellite-based observing instruments, computer models, and numerical techniques to help them distinguish between fire-generated carbon monoxide and that from other sources.
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