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Biomass combustion plays an important role in the earth's biogeochemical cycling. The monitoring of wildfires and their associated variables at global scales is feasible and can lead to predictions of the influence of combustion on biogeochemical cycling and tropospheric…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: thermal analysis, wildfires, biogeochemical cycles, biomass burning, remote sensing, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

Soil was exposed to red phosphorous/butyl rubber (RP/BR) aerosols at various relative humidities in a recirculating environmental wind tunnel. Soil microbial and enzymatic activities were measured immediately after exposure and periodically thereafter for 56 days. The…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, chemistry, cropland fires, heat effects, humidity, microorganisms, nutrient cycling, pH, pollution, post fire recovery, smoke effects, soil organisms, soils, statistical analysis, toxicity, wildfires, wind

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: broadcast burning, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, heat effects, humidity, litter, moisture, mopping up, multiple resource management, precipitation, smoke behavior, smoke effects, soil temperature, statistical analysis, temperature, weather observations, woody plants

(1)The behaviour of the August 1936 Galatea fire in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains was reconstructed with respect to the rate of spread, frontal-fire intensity and fuel consumption, and illustrates that tree mortality, seed dispersal distance into the burn and…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, Alberta, Canada, conifers, crown fires, duff, elevation, fine fuels, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel moisture, fuel types, habitat types, ignition, lightning caused fires, litter, moisture, montane forests, mortality, mountainous terrain, mountains, national parks, organic matter, overstory, Picea, Picea engelmannii, pine, Pinus contorta, plant growth, post fire recovery, radiation, rate of spread, regeneration, reproduction, sampling, seed dispersal, seed germination, site treatments, smoke behavior, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, subalpine forests, topography, trees, water, wildfires, wind

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Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conifers, flammability, hardwoods, heat, heat effects, laboratory fires, Ohio, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus rubra, wood, wood properties

Airborne measurements have been made in the smokes from large fires of standing coniferous trees and logging debris, standing chaparral, fallen jack pine, and wheat stubble. Panicle emission factors, particle size distributions, optical properties of the smokes, and trace gas…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Northern Rockies, Northwest, International
Keywords: Canada, PM - particulate matter, biomass burning, airborne measurements

Measurements of biogenic soil emissions of nitric oxide (NO) and nitrous oxide (N2O) before and after a controlled burn conducted in a chaparral ecosystem on June 22, 1987, showed significantly enhanced emissions of both gases after the burn. Mean NO emissions from heavily…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, N2O - nitrous oxide, San Dimas Experimental Forest, biogenic emissions, nitric oxide, biogenic soil emissions

Measurements in the plumes from seven forest fires show that the concentrations of NH3 were considerably in excess of ambient values. Calculation of NH3 emissions from the fires, based on the ratio of NH3/CO in the plumes and emissions of CO from biomass burning, suggest that…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Northern Rockies, Northwest, International
Keywords: smoke measurements, biomass burning, fire emissions, smoke plumes, airborne measurements, ammonia

Smoke aerosol was collected on filters from a helicopter during a 400-acre (1.62 km2) prescribed chaparral burn in the San Dimas Experimental Forest on December 12, 1986. Hi-Vol samplers were used to collect particles on both Teflon and glass fiber filters. Scanning electron…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: smoke aerosol emissions, San Dimas Experimental Forest, chaparral fires, particulate emissions

Gas samples were collected in smoke plumes over the San Dimas Experimental Forest during a 400-acre prescribed chaparral fire on December 12, 1986. A helicopter was used to collect gas samples over areas of vigorous flaming combustion and over areas of mixed stages (vigorous/…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: trace gas emissions, smoke plumes, San Dimas Experimental Forest, chaparral fires

Recent measurements indicate significantly enhanced biogenic soil emissions of both nitric oxide (NO) and nitrous oxide (N2O) following surface burning. These enhanced fluxes persisted for at least 6 months following the burn. Simultaneous measurements indicate enhanced levels…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: N2O - nitrous oxide, biomass burning, San Dimas Experimental Forest, surface burn, biogenic emissions

Emission factors and the size distribution for smoke particles from prescribed fire are described from data collected by airborne sampling, surface sampling using towers, and combustion hood systems. Emission factors for particulate matter (g/kg) range from 4 to 16 for particles…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke properties, emission factors, particulate matter (PM) emissions, fire management, forest management, smoke management, air quality, particulates, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington

Smoke emitted from forest fires in northern California in September 1987 was trapped in a valley by an inversion for 3 weeks. Daily maximum temperatures on the valley floor were more than 15 degrees C below normal for 1 week and more than 5 degrees C below normal for 3 weeks.…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: temperature, surface cooling, air temperature, catastrophic fires, climatology, heat, mortality, northern California, nuclear winter, plant growth, smoke behavior, smoke effects, soil temperature, weather observations, wildfires

Fire links the biosphere and the atmosphere. The linkage is, as yet, poorly quantified. Evidence suggests that a few percent of total C fixed by photosynthesis is oxidized by burning. Biomass burning seems to be globally significant in terms of associated: • Releases of trace…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Asia, bibliographies, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, Brazil, C - carbon, char, charcoal, chemistry, community ecology, decay, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, evolution, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire size, forest types, fossils, fuel types, gases, geography, habitat types, heat, heat effects, human caused fires, landscape ecology, Mexico, microclimate, minerals, paleoecology, paleontology, post fire recovery, prehistoric fires, remote sensing, reproduction, sedimentation, smoke effects, South America, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, telemetry, tropical forests, water, wildfires