Trace metal and black carbon data in aerosol, seawater, and floodwater samples taken in southern California during the 2017 Thomas Fire

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Aerosol, seawater, and floodwater samples were taken during the 2017 California Thomas Fire and subsequent flash flood event. These samples were used to examine how fire-flood sequences affect metal and black carbon delivery to coastal waters, such as the Santa Barbara Basin (SBB). On day 11 of the Thomas Fire, aerosols sampled at sea level under a smoke plume over the SBB found high levels of PM2.5, levoglucosan, and black carbon (average: 49 μg/m^3, 1.05 μg/m^3, 14.93 μg/m^3, respectively) and both soluble and total aerosol metal concentrations were consistent with a forest fire signature. Metal, nutrient, and chlorophyll a concentrations in surface seawater (average: 2.42 nM Fe, 0.14 µM phosphate, and 0.44 µgChla/L) were similar to concentrations during non-fire conditions, thus we could not establish fire-related increases in the SBB surface waters. On days 37 to 40 of the fire, before, during, and after a flash flood in the Ventura River, dissolved organic carbon, dissolved black carbon, and dissolved metal concentrations were positively correlated with discharge. Our findings confirm that black carbon and metals were released by the Thomas Fire and transported by both atmospheric and fluvial pathways.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926102
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006117
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.926102
Provenance
Creator Kelly, Rachel Lauren ORCID logo; Bian, Xiaopeng ORCID logo; Feakins, Sarah J ORCID logo; Fornace, Kyrstin L; Gunderson, Troy E; Hawco, Nicholas J; Liang, Hengdi ORCID logo; Niggemann, Jutta ORCID logo; Paulson, Suzanne E; Pinedo-Gonzalez, Paulina; West, A Joshua; Yang, Shun-Chung; John, Seth G (ORCID: 0000-0002-8257-626X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 3 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-120.033W, 34.079S, -119.300E, 34.353N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-12-14T06:29:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-01-12T08:00:00Z