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Table 1 California state-wide pollutant emissions from anthropogenic and wildfire emissions. Anthropogenic emissions represent the average daily emissions during the modeling period

From: Air quality and health impacts of the 2020 wildfires in California

 

Emissions (metric tons per day)

ROG

CO

NOX

SOX

PM2.5

NH3

Stationary sources

      

 Fuel Combustion

25.6

222.9

173.1

23.4

23.4

17.9

 Waste disposal

51.8

4.3

4.3

1.4

2.6

28.1

 Cleaning and surface coatings

146.2

0.1

0.1

0.0

2.6

0.5

 Petroleum production and marketing

79.7

11.0

4.4

4.2

1.9

0.3

 Industrial processes

55.6

33.1

59.6

24.1

40.4

10.9

 Total stationary sources

358.8

271.3

241.5

53.1

71.1

57.6

Areawide sources

      

 Solvent evaporation

325.6

   

0.0

162.6

 Miscellaneous processes

195.3

584.2

55.0

3.6

222.3

306.8

 Total areawide sources

520.9

584.2

55.0

3.6

222.3

469.3

Mobile sources

      

 On-road motor vehicles

191.2

1394.0

449.0

4.2

24.6

29.1

 Other mobile sources

224.1

1796.6

545.0

11.9

25.4

0.5

 Total mobile sources

415.3

3190.5

994.0

16.2

50.0

29.6

Total anthropogenic sources

1295.1

4046.0

1290.5

72.9

343.4

556.5

Fire emissions daily average

6974.9

26563.3

1221.5

228.6

2985.8

734.7

Max daily anthropogenic emissions

1385.5

4984.5

1436.0

80.3

515.3

758.0

Max daily fire emissions

30972.9

116420.1

5281.1

1001.8

13089.6

3302.2

  1. ROG reactive organic gases