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Fire disturbance in boreal forests can release carbon to the atmosphere stored in both the aboveground vegetation and the organic soil layer. Estimating pyrogenic emissions of carbon released during biomass burning in these forests is useful for understanding and estimating…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: burn severity, remote sensing, black spruce, carbon release, global carbon budget, spruce forest complex, tree density, biomass burning, mixedwood
This study presents a comprehensive investigation of fires across the Canadian boreal forest zone by means of satellite-based remote sensing. A fire-detection algorithm was designed to monitor fires using daily Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) images. It exploits…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire, forest fire, boreal, boreal forest fire, burning, development, fire detection, measurement, forest fires, forests
The Fuels Management Analyst Suite of programs facilitates: (1) the viewing of published and locally generated Photo Series and the searching of published and locally generated Photo Series for photos that meet defined criteria; (2) the reduction of fuels inventory data gathered…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: photo series, FMAPlus - Fuels Management Analyst Plus, potential fire behavior, planar intercept method, fuel profiles, DDWoodyPC (TM), PSExplorer (TM), CrownMass (TM), potential fire effects, crown mass
The objective of this study is to determine the level of support Florida residents ascribe to three alternative fuel reduction techniques given location to recent large-scale wildfire events and differences in ethnicity and/or language. Gaps in knowledge and attitude toward…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fuel reduction, Florida, willingness-to-pay, air quality, ash, bibliography, catastrophic fires, climatology, community ecology, digital data collection, drought, ecosystem dynamics, education, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire damage, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire protection, fire regimes, fire suppression, flame length, fuel accumulation, geography, Georgia, health factors, herbicide, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, lightning caused fires, litter, national parks, pine forests, precipitation, private lands, public information, season of fire, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, thinning, wildfires, wind
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada
We propose to validate the following products from the MODIS instrument of the EOS satellite: (1) The temporal and spatial distribution of active fires and the chronology of fire scar growth, (2) the heat released and approximate radiative energy produced as a function of time,…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: aerosols, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, satellite, Africa, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, Zambia
The Pacific Northwest Regional Modeling Consortium (comprised of numerous state and federal agencies) have made advances in the use of the MM5 meteorological model for real-time forecasting applications to fire and smoke management since the introduction of our work at the…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air pollution, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, NFSPUFF, real-time weather data, surface wind, MM5 mesoscale model
A direct proportionality has been found between the smoke extinction area (SEA) for smoke of room linings and the SEA as measured in the cone calorimeter (ISO5660). The room test scenario (ISO9705) considered was the propane ignition burner at the corner with a 100/300 kW…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: calorimeters, fire danger, Forest Products Laboratory, wood products
Visible and infrared (IR) observations of flame structure were made of the Frostfire controlled burn carried out 8-10 July 1999 at the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. The observations were taken from Caribou Peak, facing the burn area from the…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: Frostfire, infrared imagery, air quality, boreal forest, ecology, energy, experimental fire, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, photography, rate of spread, remote sensing, soot, temperature, watershed management, watersheds
To guide development of coupled atmosphere-fire models, a suite of instruments was assembled to examine the dynamics of wildfires. Visible and Infrared (IR) imaging and UV through near IR spectral observations were made of the Frostfire prescribed burn carried out 8-10 July 1999…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: atmosphere fire model, Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, Frostfire, infrared, infrared imaging, visible imaging, wildfire dynamics, UV - ultra violet
With the increasing use of prescribed fire, predicting the potential impacts are becoming more and more important. Of great concern are the effects of smoke on human health and visibility. To help land managers anticipate and plan for potential trajectories and dispersion of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: climatology, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, mixing height, smoke dispersion, surface wind, wildland areas
In managing smoke from wildland biomass fires, much effort has been placed on lofted trajectories that may influence human health, regional haze, scenic vistas, and effects on incoming radiation. It has been found, however, that neutrally-buoyant smoke from the smoldering phase…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, Frostfire, inversion, smoldering
PB-Piedmont is a numerical model designed to simulate near-ground smoke movement at night under clear skies and near calm winds over irregular terrain characterized by ridge/valley elevation differences of the order of 50 m. Although the model was developed for monitoring smoke…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern
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In summary, the sensitivety study presented in this chapter supports the overall theme of this book (i.e., that fires in the boreal forest play a central role in the exchange of carbon between this biome and the atmosphere). Through a series of processes, the continuing rise in…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, carbon cycle, carbon storage, climate change, global warming, biomass, C - carbon, climatology, fire frequency, forest management, gases, organic soils, post-fire recovery, prairie, soil management, soils, statistical analysis, taiga, temperature
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Canada, Arctic, boreal ecosystem, carbon cycle, climate change, boreal forest, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, lightning caused fires, nutrient cycling, peatlands, tundra, wildfires
The landmark paper of Seiler and Crutzen (1980) clearly laid out the scientific rational as to why the study of biomass burning was essential in terms of completely understanding greenhouse gasses emissions from the land surface to the atmosphere. While this analysis fueled…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, soil respiration, carbon budget, forest succession, greenhouse gas emissions, biomass burning
One of the most important factors impacting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems is the atmospheric environment. Climatic and weather events play a significant role in governing the natural processes that occur in these ecosystems. The current characteristics of the vast number of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: deposition
This paper describes the procedures and data used to develop a database of 28 fire, fuels, and smoke attributes for the broadscale scientific assessment of the Interior Columbia River Basin. These attributes relate to three general areas: (1) fire weather, fuel moisture, and…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fuel consumption, fuel loading, particulates, wildfire, database, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, fuel profiles, interior Columbia River basin, PM10 emissions, air quality, Columbia River basin, dead fuels, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire weather, fuel modeling, fuel moisture, heat, herbaceous vegetation, moisture, shrubs, smoke management, wildfires
Abstract from introduction: 'Over the next 50-100 years, the predicted doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is expected to increase summer temperatures up to 4-6 degrees C at higher latitudes (Boer et al. 1992: Maxwell 1992: Ferguson 1995). In a 2 x CO2…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire frequency, fire severity, climate change, global warming, precipitation, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, ignition, lightning caused fires, wildfires
In boreal forests, which contain large amounts of the world's terrestrial organic carbon, fire is a natural and fundamental disturbance regime essential in controlling many ecosystem processes. As a result of predicted climate change in the future, the fire regime and,…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, air quality, carbon cycle, carbon release, climate change, biomass, C - carbon, fire management, forest management, climate change, population density, statistical analysis, taiga, wildfires
The rate and magnitude of emissions from prescribed burns and wildfires in wildland areas throughout the world are related to biomass consumption, which is controlled by total biomass, fuel moisture, fuel distribution (fuel size and arrangement), and ignition pattern.…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: heat release rate, biomass consumption, biomass emissions, EPM - Emissions Production Model, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, landuse, Brazil, biomass burning, smoke production
Smoke exposure measurements among firefighters during prescribed burns in the Pacific Northwest between 1991 and 1994 showed that a small but significant percentage of workers experienced exposure to carbon monoxide and respiratory irritant that exceeded occupational exposure…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, duff, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, health factors, mopping up, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, toxicity, wind, smoke hazards, firefighters, health effects, pollutants
Smoke exposure measurements among firefighters at wildfires in the Western United States between 1992 and 1995 showed that although most exposures were not significant, between 3 and 5 percent of the shift-average exposures exceeded occupational exposure limits for carbon…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, firing techniques, health factors, mopping up, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wind, smoke exposure, firefighters, occupational health, pollutants, industrial hypiene, smoke hazards
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Amazon, Bolivia, Brazil, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, conservation, deforestation, droughts, ENSO, fire management, forest management, fragmentation, ground fires, habitat suitability, human caused fires, land use, logging, low intensity burns, remote sensing, South America, statistical analysis, surface fires, tropical forests, wildfires, Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, carbon sink, climate change, climatic variability, forest conservation, habitat fragmentation, logging, tropical forests
1 Areas burned annually in the United States between 1700 and 1990 were derived from published estimates of pre-European burning rates and from wildfire statistics of the US Forest Service. Changes in live and dead vegetation following fire and fire exclusion were determined for…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, biomass, C - carbon, chaparral, coniferous forests, croplands, deserts, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, habitat conversion, land use, post fire recovery, prairies, presettlement fires, succession, tundra, wildfires, biomass, carbon emissions, carbon sink, carbon storage, fire management, land use change, terrestrial ecosystems