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Massive wildfires have become more frequent, seriously threatening the Earth’s ecosystems and human societies. Recognizing smoke from forest fires is critical to extinguishing them at an early stage. However, edge devices have low computational accuracy and suboptimal real-time…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, YOLOv8, lightweight model, smoke detection, SimAmazonia, BiFPN - bidirectional feature pyramid network
Global climate change and extreme weather has a profound impact on wildfire, and it is of great importance to explore wildfire patterns in the context of global climate change for wildfire prevention and management. In this paper, a wildfire spatial prediction model based on…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire management, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, convolutional neural network, area burned
In response to increasing wildfire risks, California plans to expand the use of prescribed fire. We characterized the anticipated change in health impacts from exposure to smoke under a future fire-management scenario relative to a historical period (2008–2016). Using dispersion…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: health impacts, public health, PM2.5, BlueSky Modeling Framework, PM - particulate matter
Starting from point sources, wildfire smoke is important in the global aerosol system. The ability to characterize smoke near-source is key to modeling smoke dispersion and predicting air quality. With hemispheric views and 10-min refresh, imagers in Geostationary (GEO) orbit…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: remote sensing, air quality, smoke dispersion, MAS (MODIS Airborne Simulator), FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality
The vertical distribution of biomass burning aerosol (BBA) is important in regulating their impacts on weather and climate. The plume-rise process affects the injection height of BBA and interacts with the air parcel lifting and cloud processes. However, these processes are not…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: E3SM - Energy Exascale Earth System Model, aerosol radiative effects, fire plumes, fire size
Climate change and human activity have increased fires in India. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is released into the atmosphere by stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana and forest fires in the north-eastern and central areas of the country. Accurate short-term PM2.5 estimates…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire forecasting, deep learning, air pollution, LSTM - long short-term memory, India, PM2.5, fine particulate matter
From the Introduction...'There are several reasons why wildland fire managers may want to conduct an ambient air quality-monitoring program. These include: • smoke management program evaluation purposes, • to fulfill a public information need, • to verify assumptions used in…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire equipment, health factors, particulates, public information, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the Summary...'For many projects a simple model often provides as good information as a more complex model. Regulations, however, may dictate the level of modeling required for each project. Other times, community values will determine the level of effort needed to…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, burning permits, CO - carbon monoxide, fire size, fuel loading, fuel types, health factors, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management
From the Introduction...'A land manager*s decision to use a specific burning technique is influenced by many considerations, only one of which is a goal to reduce smoke emissions. Other important considerations include ensuring public and firefighter safety, maintaining control…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, backing fires, biomass, chaparral, computer programs, coniferous forests, duff, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasslands, ignition, land management, land use, litter, mopping up, mortality, mosaic, nutrients, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, site treatments, slash, smoke management, Tsuga, water, water quality, wilderness fire management, woody fuels
From the text...'In summary, the enormous wildland/urban interface and dense road network located in a region where up to six million acres of wildlands per year are subject to prescribed fire combine to make problem smoke the foremost land management-related air quality problem…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, cover type, fire frequency, Florida, Georgia, GIS, Piedmont, pine forests, plant growth, precipitation, roads, rural communities, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, topography, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wind
Wildland fire is a major disturbance agent that shapes the forest health productivity and ecological diversity of eastern Oregon and Washington. Fire behavior and the effects of fire on flora, fauna, soils, air, and water are in large part driven by the availability of fuels to…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: bibliographies, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, ground fires, hardwood forests, health factors, logging, Oregon, partial cutting, pine forests, rangelands, site treatments, soils, succession, thinning, vegetation surveys, Washington, water, wilderness fire management, wildfires
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement new regulations for the management of atmospheric particulate matter 2.5 Fm and less in diameter (PM2.5), tropospheric ozone, and regional haze in the next few years. These three air quality issues relate…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, combustion, education, fire management, gases, health factors, human caused fires, ozone, particulates, pollution, public information, remote sensing, site treatments, smoke management, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
Fire effects are modeled for a variety of reasons including: to evaluate risk, to develop treatment prescriptions, to compare management options, and to understand ecosystems. Fire effects modeling may be conducted at a range of temporal and spatial scales. First-order fire…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion, crown scorch, duff, erosion, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fuel inventory, fuel models, heat, mortality, soil temperature, succession, vegetation surveys
The 1997 Indonesia forest fires was an environmental disaster of exceptional proportions. Such a disaster caused massive transboundary air pollution and indiscriminate destruction of biodiversity in the world. The immediate consequence of the fires was the production of large…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, biomass, droughts, fire intensity, gases, climate change, health factors, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, savannas, seasonal activities, Singapore, smoke effects, smoke management, Southeast Asia, species diversity, storms, Sumatra, tropical forests, wildfires, wind
The role of climate and natural disturbance in the past provides a context for understanding present and future changes in biota. The vegetation history of the Yellowstone region, like that of North America as a whole, is largely one of plant invasions and extinctions in…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Acer spp., biogeography, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, Castanea dentata, charcoal, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, fire regimes, forest management, fossils, hardwood forests, introduced species, invasive species, Juniperus occidentalis, Juniperus osteosperma, landscape ecology, Larix laricina, Larrea tridentata, paleoecology, Picea abies, Picea engelmannii, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pinus monophylla, pioneer species, plant communities, plant diseases, pollen, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, succession, temperature, Tsuga canadensis, wildfires, Yellowstone National Park
New methods for retrieving tropospheric ozone column depth and absorbing aerosol (smoke and dust) from the Earth Probe—Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (EP/TOMS) are used to follow pollution and to determine interannual variability and trends. During intense fires over Indonesia…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, biomass, dust, ENSO, fire intensity, GIS, India, Indonesia, Oceania, ozone, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires
Invasion by woody alien plants, construction, and mining operations are among the major disturbances degrading vegetation in the Cape Floristic Kingdom, South Africa. The aim of this study was to assess whether native fynbos shrubland vegetation could be restored following dense…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Africa, cover, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Eucalyptus diversicolor, fragmentation, fynbos, grasses, grasslands, Hakea, herbaceous vegetation, invasive species, Leucadendron, mining, mortality, overstory, Pinus pinaster, plant growth, population density, post fire recovery, Protea lepidocarpodendron, range management, regeneration, seed germination, seeds, serotiny, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, South Africa, statistical analysis, trees, vegetation surveys, woody plants
From the text ... 'The Smoke Management Team at the USDA Forest Service's Southern Research Station in Athens, GA, developed a smoke movement and dispersion model that departs from proven techniques, such as Gaussian plume models like VSMOKE (Lavdas 1996). Planned Burn-Piedmont…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire management, Georgia, light, national forests, Piedmont, reproduction, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), Washington, wildfires, wind
Predicted daily fluxes from an ecosystem model for water, carbon dioxide, and methane were compared with 1994 and 1996 Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) field measurements at sites dominated by old black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) (OBS) and boreal fen vegetation…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, ecosystem modeling, black spruce, BOREAS - Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study, Manitoba, methane flux, CO2 flux, NPP - net primary production, boreal fen vegetation
Fire modeling and information system technology play an important supporting role in fuel and fire management. Modeling is used to examine alternative fuel treatment options, project potential ecosystem changes, and assess risk to life and property. Models are also used to…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel models, wildland fire, fire spread, fuel management, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, computer program, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire injuries (plants), evolution, fire management, flame length, fuel loading, fuel types, GIS - geographic information system, mineral soil, ignition, rate of spread, remote sensing, mortality, surface fires, season of fire, thinning, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, fire policy, research needs, fuel management, air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire models, fire regimes, fire suppression, fire weather, fuel loading, GIS - geographic information system, fuel moisture, remote sensing, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wildfires
This appendix describes the models and related methodologies used in the analyses presented in this Final EIS including the following: Rare Event Risk Assessment Process (RERAP), FlamMap, Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM), First-order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), and Air Quality…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, fuel treatments, BWCAW - Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, environmental impact statements, blowdown
Smoke management is becoming increasingly complex as the use of fire to preserve or maintain forest health and reduce hazardous fuels is increasing and as smoke from forest and rangeland burning is combining with smoke from traditional agricultural fires to compete for airshed…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, CONSUME, FARSITE - Fire Area Simulator, Northwest, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke impacts, smoke modeling, FASTRACS - Fuel Analysis, Smoke Tracking, and Report Access Computer System, BlueSky Modeling Framework
Between June and November 2000, fourteen focus groups were held in four selected sites to elicit and document the range of perspectives, concepts and lexicon for discussing fire management and fuel treatment. Scales for fuel treatment acceptance factors such as fire knowledge,…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: public opinion, aesthetics, air quality, catastrophic fires, climatology, conservation, coniferous forests, cutting, deforestation, drought, education, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firebreak, flammability, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel management, grasses, grazing, herbicide, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, Lake States, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, Michigan, moisture, national forests, national parks, nutrients, pine forests, plantations, post-fire recovery, precipitation, private lands, public information, recreation, regulations, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, Sierra Nevada, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, species diversity, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species, understory vegetation, wind, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Background: Tropical savannas represent a large proportion of the area burnt each year globally, with growing evidence that management to curtail fire frequency and intensity in some of these regions can contribute to mitigation of climate change. Approximately 25% of Australia’…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, carbon accounting, FullCAM, mortality, litterfall, savannas, standing dead trees