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Air pollution from landscape fires, domestic fires and fossil fuel combustion is recognized as the single most important global environmental risk factor for human mortality and is associated with a global burden of disease almost as large as that of tobacco smoking. The shift…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, diseases, health factors, mortality, particulates, pollution, fire management, smoke management, landscape fire, air pollution, Epidemiological Transition, mortality, biomass smoke, particulate matter
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Models, Logistics, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, Asia, India, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, vegetation, Algorithm, wildfire, tropics
Detailed chemical characterisation was performed for wintertime and summertime PM10 samples collected in Melbourne, Australia. The samples were analysed for marker compounds of biomass burning and biogenic secondary organic aerosol (SOA). The chemical analysis showed that the…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: combustion, wildfires, Australia, Victoria, aerosols, air quality, fire management, smoke management, Eucalyptus spp., biogenic SOA, wood smoke SOA, eucalyptus combustion, Fine-Particle Emissions, chemical characterization, fireplace combustion, carbonaceous aerosols, biomass combustion, atmospheric tracer, stove combustion, levoglucosan, smoke impact
Relations between soil biota diversity and its contribution to the performance of some ecosystem functions were assessed based on the results obtained in undisturbed and burned spruce forests near the Central Forest Nature Biosphere Reserve (Tver oblast). In August 2014, in two…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Europe, Russia, soil organisms, species diversity (animals), ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, coniferous forests, taiga, soil fauna, biodiversity, Functioning, taiga, boreal ecosystems, nitrogen mineralization, ecosystem services, community, landscape, abundance, Nematodes, podzols, fauna
In this study, volatile and semi-volatile organic compound (VOCs and SVOCs) mass emission factors were determined from laboratory peat fire experiments. The peat samples originated from two National Wildlife Refuges on the coastal plain of North Carolina, U.S.A. Gas- and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biomass burning, laboratory fires, peat fires, North Carolina, air quality, C - carbon, organic soils, peat, fire management, smoke management, coastal plain, biomass burning, organic soil, VOC - volatile organic compounds, emission factors, Fine-Particle Emissions, wood combustion, source apportionment, particulate matter, gas phase, biomass, tracers
The 2015 fire season and related smoke pollution in Indonesia was more severe than the major 2006 episode, making it the most severe season observed by the NASA Earth Observing System satellites that go back to the early 2000s, namely active fire detections from the Terra and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire intensity, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, air quality, droughts, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, fire management, land use, smoke management, Indonesia, biomass burning, haze, pollution
The Cerrado (Brazilian savanna) is a biodiversity hotspot with a history of fire that goes back as far as 10 million years. Fire has influenced the evolution of several aspects of the vegetation, including reproduction and life cycles. This study tested how fire by-products such…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat, Brazil, South America, seed dormancy, seed germination, temperature, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, cerrado, grasslands, savannas, tropical regions, Campo Sujo, fire-prone ecosystem, heat shock, tropical savannas, wet grasslands, heat shock, Brazilian Cerrado, high temperatures, dormancy, Fluctuations, conservation, grasslands, management, plants
During the dry season, from November to April, agricultural biomass burning and forest fires especially from March to late April in mainland Southeast Asian countries of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam frequently cause severe particulate pollution not only in the local areas…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, Asia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, aerosols, air quality, pollution, fire management, smoke management, biomass burning, Southeast Asia, MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth, CALIPSO Aerosol Types, WRF - Weather Research Forecast, Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT)
See publishers web site for abstract. http://www.springeronline.com © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015.
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, wildfires, Sierra Nevada, fire management, forest management, fuel management, coniferous forests, treatment optimization, burn probability, fuel treatments, mixed conifer, mixed-conifer forest, reduction treatments, western United States, Treatment Impacts, wildland fires, ponderosa pine, carbon stocks, spotted owl
We present a study focusing on detection and initial quantitative estimates of ethylene (C2H4) in observations from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), a Fourier transform spectrometer aboard the Aura satellite that measures thermal infrared radiances with high…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): California
Keywords: biomass burning, flame length, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, hydrocarbons, ozone, remote sensing, fire management, Ethylene, Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer, satellite remote sensing
Wildfires are important contributors to atmospheric aerosols and a large source of emissions that impact regional air quality and global climate. In this study, the regional and nearfield influences of wildfire emissions on ambient aerosol concentration and chemical properties…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: biomass burning, combustion, wildfires, Oregon, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, biomass burning emissions, Organic Aerosol, Mass-Spectrometer, high resolution, trace gases, chemical composition, particulate matter, mixing ratios
Large-scale sea surface temperature (SST) patterns influence the interannual variability of burned area in many regions by means of climate controls on fuel continuity, amount, and moisture content. Some of the variability in burned area is predictable on seasonal timescales…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire size, wildfires, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, temperature, fire management, biomass burning, teleconnection, Seasonal Outlook, mitigation, biomass burning emissions, fire danger forecasts, interannual variability, Southeast Asia, El-Nino, Statistical-Model, wildfire activity, drought, severity
Formic acid (HCOOH) is one of the most abundant carboxylic acids and a dominant source of atmospheric acidity. Recent work indicates a major gap in the HCOOH budget, with atmospheric concentrations much larger than expected from known sources. Here, we employ recent space-based…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire frequency, Africa, fire management, forest management, tropical forests, Infrared-Spectroscopy Aftir, Gas-Phase Reactions, global distribution, acetic acid, isoprene emissions, CO - carbon monoxide, Vinyl Alcohol, Mexico City, trace gases
A key uncertainty concerning the effect of wildfire on carbon dynamics is the rate at which fire‐killed biomass (e.g., dead trees) decays and emits carbon to the atmosphere. We used a ground‐based approach to compute decomposition of forest biomass killed, but not combusted, in…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire case histories, fire injuries (plants), fire size, post-fire recovery, wildfires, C - carbon, decomposition, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests, carbon emissions, necromass, Forest Decomposition, dead wood, CWD - coarse woody debris, western Oregon, forest fires, conifer forest, ponderosa pine, climate change, wildland fire, dynamics, ecosystem, chronosequence, Pinus ponderosa
Seeds of some eastern Australian Grevillea species show the characteristics of non-deep physiological dormancy, which is broken by exposure to heat shock and/or smoke. The current study tested whether the restrictive effect of the seed coat on germination was localized to…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Ecology, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat effects, smoke effects, Australia, seed dormancy, seed germination, fire management, smoke management, Embryonic Growth Potential, Mechanical Constraint, Non-Deep Physiological Dormancy, Selective Seed Coat Removal, water potential
Africa has the most extensive C4 grassy biomes of any continent. They are highly flammable accounting for greater than 70% of the world's burnt area. Much of Africa's savannas and grasslands occur in climates warm enough and wet enough to support closed forests. The combination…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, flammability, human-caused fires, Africa, deforestation, fire management, range management, grasslands, old fields, savannas, old-growth grasslands, forest restoration, grassland biodiversity, sub-Saharan Africa, fire regimes, global vegetation, carbon emissions, plant diversity, atmospheric CO2, tropical forest, climate change, savanna fire
Humans use combustion for heating and cooking, managing lands, and, more recently, for fuelling the industrial economy. As a shift to fossil-fuel-based energy occurs, we expect that anthropogenic biomass burning in open landscapes will decline as it becomes less fundamental to…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass burning, human caused fires, carbon dioxide, climate change, fire management, fuel management, smoke management, anthropogenic burning, carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, Global Fire, pyrogeography, fire regimes, wildfire, Impact, Anthropocene, transition, landscape, patterns, drivers
Two specific fires from 2011 are tracked for local to regional scale contribution to ozone (O3) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) using a freely available regulatory modeling system that includes the BlueSky wildland fire emissions tool, Spare Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: 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: wildfires, Arizona, Kansas, aerosols, air quality, ozone, particulates, fire management, smoke management, wild fire, Photochemical Model, ozone, particulate matter
Fire and herbivory are the two consumers of above-ground biomass globally. They have contrasting impacts as they differ in terms of selectivity and temporal occurrence. Here, we integrate continental-scale data on fire and herbivory in Africa to explore (i) how environmental…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, wildfires, Africa, grazing, greenhouse gases, herbivory, mammals, CH4 - methane, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, wildlife management, savannas, Fire - Grazer Interactions, Savannah Determinants, greenhouse gas emissions
Background: In 2012, Colorado experienced one of its worst wildfire seasons of the past decade. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship of local PM2.5 levels, modeled using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model with Chemistry, with emergency department…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): California, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, Colorado, air quality, health factors, particulates, fire management, smoke management, wildfires, respiratory, cardiovascular, emergency department visits, PM2.5, particulate matter, fine particulate matter, Cardiorespiratory Hospital Admissions, southern California wildfires, oxidative stress, time-series, fire smoke, health, Australia
Due to concerns about adverse health effects associated with inhalation of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), 30 ambient air samples were obtained at an air quality monitoring station in Palm Beach County, Florida, from March 2013 to March 2014. The ambient PAH…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: season of fire, wildfires, Florida, agriculture, air quality, hydrocarbons, pollution, fire management, biomass burning emissions, Mass-Balance Model, human health, sugarcane, Chicago, Impact, Fate, Area
A lack of independent, quality-assured data prevents scientists from effectively evaluating predictions and uncertainties in fire models used by land managers. This paper presents a summary of pre-fire and post-fire fuel, fuel moisture and surface cover fraction data that can be…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, fuel loading, fuel moisture, post fire recovery, surface fuels, Florida, Georgia, ash, char, cover, energy, herbaceous vegetation, litter, military lands, mineral soils, shrubs, fire management, forest management, land management, ash, fuel consumption, fuel loading, longleaf pine
The lack of independent, quality-assured field data prevents scientists from effectively evaluating and advancing wildland fire models. To rectify this, scientists and technicians convened in the southeastern United States in 2008, 2011 and 2012 to collect wildland fire data in…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, Florida, Georgia, energy, military lands, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management, fire model evaluation, remote-piloted aircraft system
Smoke-haze episodes, caused by uncontrolled peat and forest fires, occur almost every year in the South-East Asian region with increased concentrations of PM2.5 (airborne particulate matter (PM) with diameter < 2.5 mm). Particulate-bound trace elements (TrElems), especially…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, Singapore, aerosols, air quality, health factors, fire management, smoke management, Metal Bioaccessibility, Simulated Lung Fluids, smoke haze, health risk assessment, aerosols
From the text...'Comparing an accouont of the 1997 fires...with the events of 2015 gives one an eerie sense of history repeating itself. Will anything be different in the aftermath this time? We believe it is naive to expect Indonesia to solve the forest-fire problem on its own…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire size, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, Borneo, Sumatra, air quality, agriculture, clearcutting, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, mammals, precipitation, fire management, forest management, peatlands, Southeast Asia, haze, peat