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Wildfire Smoke: Trends, Challenges, Unknowns, And Human Response, Mariah Dawn Fowler
Wildfire Smoke: Trends, Challenges, Unknowns, And Human Response, Mariah Dawn Fowler
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Wildfire smoke is a growing threat to human livelihood in the Western United States. The economic and the health burden of smoke is accelerating in response to a growing fire season and escalating fire activity. This study first evaluates the trends in air quality over Boise, Idaho and the entire Northwest (and Montana) to assess the impacts of wildfire smoke in the region. The Mann-Kendall trend analysis shows that there is a statistically significant trend in the average and maximum air quality index (AQI) during the fire season (July-August-September) in the Boise area. The AQI shows a decreasing trend, although …