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Current fire emission inventories apply universal emission factors (EFs) for the calculation of NOx emissions over large biomes such as boreal forest. However, recent satellite-based studies over tropical and subtropical regions have indicated spatio-temporal variations in EFs…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, Asia, Europe, Canada, radiation, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management, boreal forests, satellite measurements, Tropospheric No2, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, NOx emission factor
Lidar-data processing techniques are analyzed, which allow determining smoke-plume heights and their dynamics and can be helpful for the improvement of smoke dispersion and air quality models. The data processing algorithms considered in the paper are based on the analysis of…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, remote sensing, smoke plume height, ground-based scanning LIDAR
As the climate in California warms and wildfires become larger and more severe, satellite-based observational tools are frequently used for studying impact of those fires on air quality. However little objective work has been done to quantify the skill these satellite…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: autoregressive, PM2.5, satellite imagery, exceptional event, air pollution standards, NOAA Hazard Mapping System, wildfires, air quality, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, Sierra Nevada, fire management, smoke management
The International Smoke Symposium was held in Hyattsville, Maryland at the University of Maryland University College, USA, October 21-24, 2013. The objective of this symposium was to bring together air quality, fire, and smoke specialists from the research community, non-…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: conference proceedings, fire management, smoke management, smoke exposure
The balance between ecosystem emissions of carbon to the atmosphere and removals from the atmosphere indicates whether ecosystems are exacerbating or reducing climate change. Forest ecosystems in the State of California, USA, contain carbon that reaches the highest densities (…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: aboveground biomass, fire suppression, forest ecosystems, FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, LANDFIRE, remote sensing, fuel accumulation, wildfire, urban areas, aboveground live carbon, California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, agricultural areas
Evaluated Weather Research and Forecasting model inline with chemistry (WRF/Chem) simulations of the 2009 Crazy Mountain Complex wildfire in Interior Alaska served as a testbed for typical Alaska wildfire-smoke conditions. A virtual unmanned air vehicle (UAV) sampled…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: WRF-Chem, CALIPSO, wildfire, UAV - unmanned aerial vehicles
This feasibility study examined whether total backscatter and depolarization measurements from Cloud Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) in combination with sparse surface meteorological data and other information permitted qualitative…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: CALIPSO, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, WRF-Chem, air quality, smoke plume
The degree and manner in which different fires affect climate is a complete unknown, but is expected to vary substantially and may in fact represent a currently untapped climate mitigation service. In this webinar, Rogers will provide background on these issues, and describe his…
Person: Rogers
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: fire regime, black carbon, carbon emissions, fire climate, greenhouse gases, AFSC - Alaska Fire Science Consortium, ABoVE - NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment