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Atmospheric composition is strongly influenced by wildfire emissions, which have a strong variability over time and space. Estimates of fire emissions on large scale are based on a combination of burned area, combustion completeness, and fuel load. Approaches differ in the…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, combustion, fuel loading, smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, carbon dioxide, fertilization, grasses, shrubs, fire management, forest management, smoke management, boreal forests, savannas, temperate forests, tropical forests, biomass burning, fuel load
We have demonstrated the use of an advanced Gaussian-Process (GP) emulator to estimate wildland fire emissions over a wide range of fuel and atmospheric conditions. The Fire Emission Production Simulator, or FEPS, is used to produce an initial set of emissions data that…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire danger rating, fuel loading, wildfires, fire management, smoke management, fire emission, statistical emulator, simulator, FEPS, emission prediction, Gaussian processes
The genus Conostylis (Haemodoraceae) is endemic to fire-prone south-western Australia. To gain an understanding of the effect of some fire-related germination cues, eight Conostylis taxa were tested in response to water, nitrate, smoke water and karrikinolide (KAR1) under light…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, seed dormancy, seed germination, Conostylis, cone flowers, western Australia, Australia, fire management, smoke management, Conostylis, germination, glyceronitrile, Haemodoraceae, karrikinolide, seed dormancy, smoke water
Firefighters responding to wildland fires where surface litter and vegetation contain radiological contamination will receive a radiological dose by inhaling resuspended radioactive material in the smoke. This may increase their lifetime risk of contracting certain types of…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire injuries (humans), fire suppression, firefighting personnel, smoke effects, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, diseases, duff, health factors, litter, radiation, woody plants, South Carolina, fire management, smoke management, atmospheric dispersion, radioactive dose, radioecology, firefighters
The paper discusses the main uncertainties of wild-land fire emission estimates used in the AQMEII-II case study. The wild-land fire emission of particulate matter for the summer fire season of 2010 in Eurasia was generated by the Integrated System for wild-land Fires (IS4FIRES…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, particulates, radiation, remote sensing, Europe, fire management, smoke management, fire emission uncertainty, IS4FIRES, FRP - Fire Radiative Power
Fully-coupled air-quality models running in 'feedback' and 'no-feedback' configurations were compared against each other and observation network data as part of Phase 2 of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative. In the 'no-feedback' mode, interactions between…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, aerosols, air quality, pollution, Europe, smoke management, feedbacks, air pollution modelling, weather prediction, direct effect, indirect effect, coupled modelling systems, forecasting
This study reviews the top ranked meteorology and chemistry interactions in online coupled models recommended by an experts' survey conducted in COST Action EuMetChem and examines the sensitivity of those interactions during two pollution episodes: the Russian forest fires 25…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, dust, particulates, pollution, Europe, fire management, smoke management, aerosol direct effects, feedback, PM10, fire and dust
As a contribution to phase2 of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII), eight different simulations for the year 2010 were performed with WRF-Chem for the European domain. The four simulations using RADM2 gas-phase chemistry and the MADE/SORGAM aerosol…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, pollution, Europe, fire management, smoke management, WRF-Chem, online coupled model, direct aerosol effect, indirect effect, aerosol-meteorology feedback, RADM2, AQMEII-2
Estimating carbon emissions from wildland fires is complicated by the large variation in both forest fuels and burning conditions across Canada's boreal forest. The potential for using spatial fuel maps to improve wildland fire carbon emission estimates in Canada's National…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: fuel models, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cover, grasses, stand characteristics, Abies balsamea, balsam fir, Picea glauca, white spruce, Picea mariana, black spruce, Pinus banksiana, jack pine, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, Manitoba, Northern Territory of Australia, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory, Canada, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, land cover, fuel consumption
A nation-wide passive air sampling campaign recorded concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in Australia's atmosphere in 2012. XAD-based passive air samplers were deployed for one year at 15 sampling sites located in remote/background, agricultural and semi-urban and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, pollution, New South Wales, Queensland, southern Australia, Australia, fire management, smoke management
Past studies suggest that forest fires contribute significantly to the formation of ozone in the troposphere. However, the emissions of ozone precursors from wildfires, and the mechanisms involved in ozone production from boreal fires, are very complicated. Moreover, an…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, air quality, ozone, resprouting, Russia, Siberia, Asia, fire management, forest management, boreal forests
A Korean prototype semi-continuous aerosol sampler was used to measure Asian dust particles. During two dust-storm periods concentrations of crustal and trace elements were significantly enriched. Dust storms are one of the most significant natural sources of air pollution in…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, Korea, Asia, fire management, smoke management
The complexity of analyzing and predicting smoke plumes that originate from forest fire events and impact populated regions of southern Ontario motivates the innovative application of analytical techniques including trajectory-based receptor modeling for spatial source…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, remote sensing, Ontario, Canada, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, PM2.5, remote sensing, near-real-time, sQTBA, long-range atmospheric transport
Estimating population exposure to particulate matter during wildfires can be difficult because of insufficient monitoring data to capture the spatiotemporal variability of smoke plumes. Chemical transport models (CTMs) and satellite retrievals provide spatiotemporal data that…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire frequency, fire intensity, lightning caused fires, smoke behavior, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, fire management, smoke management
As a part of the EUCAARI and IS4FIRES projects, a prescribed burning experiment was conducted near the SMEAR II station in Hyytiala, Finland, on 26 June 2009. The ground-level concentrations of the smoke at different distances from the burn area were measured by a mobile…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: experimental fires, aerosols, gases, particulates, Finland, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, boreal forests
Relationships between seed germination response to plant-derived smoke and various plant traits (habitat requirements, life form, seed morphology, seed bank type) were analysed for 97 species of the Hungarian flora using published data. It was hypothesized that smoke-responsive…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: post fire recovery, smoke effects, wildfires, plant communities, regeneration, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, weeds, Hungary, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, ecological indicator values, life form, seed properties, temperate species, weeds
The Amazon basin is a hot spot of anthropogenically-driven biomass burning, accounting for approximately 15% of total global fire emissions. It is essential to accurately measure these fires for robust regional and global modeling of key environmental processes. Here we have…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, Amazon, Brazil, South America, fire management, smoke management, AOD - aerosol optical depth, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, AERONET - Aerosol Robotic Network
Fire-favoured insects are difficult to sample except opportunistically after forest fires. Here, we tested if smoke from a small fire could be an efficient way to sample such insects. Insects were sampled over ca. 10 h hours, by hand-picking and netting on screens put up around…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire dependent species, laboratory fires, smoke effects, insects, sampling, Coleoptera, Diptera, Sweden, Europe, fire management, smoke management, wildlife management, Coleoptera, Diptera, netting, opportunistic, sampling method, Sweden
Crop-residue burning plays an important role in regional air quality and global climate change. The North China Plain, the largest winter wheat production district in China, experiences extensive crop fires during harvest seasons. Traditional methods to estimate emissions from…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: cropland fires, fire frequency, wildfires, agriculture, air quality, particulates, radiation, remote sensing, China, Asia, fire management, forest management, crop residue, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, North China Plain, emission estimates
The effects of fire on the vegetation vary across continents. However, in Neotropical fire-prone grasslands, the relationship between fire and seed germination is still poorly understood, while their regeneration, especially after strong anthropogenic disturbance, is challenging…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: laboratory fires, post fire recovery, smoke effects, herbaceous vegetation, regeneration, seed dormancy, seed germination, temperature, Cyperaceae, Poaceae, Brazil, South America, fire management, range management, grasslands, tropical regions, fire-related sermination, neotropical grassland, physiological dormancy, temperature fluctuation
High smoke concentrations in Equatorial Asia, primarily from land conversion to oil palm plantations, affect a densely populated region and represent a serious but poorly quantified air quality concern. Continued expansion of the oil palm industry is expected but the resulting…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: season of fire, smoke effects, air quality, conservation, Sumatra, Asia, fire management, smoke management, peatlands, Equatorial Asia, adjoint, palm oil, conservation, population-exposure
Given the increase in wildfire intensity and frequency worldwide, prescribed burning is becoming a more common and widespread practice. Prescribed burning is a fire management tool used to reduce fuel loads for wildfire suppression purposes and occurs on an annual basis in many…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, health factors, particulates, pollution, Victoria, Australia, fire management, smoke management
Smoke emitted from Indonesian peatland fires has caused dense haze and serious air pollution in Southeast Asia such as visibility impairment and adverse health impacts. To mitigate the Indonesian peatland fire aerosol impacts, an effective strategy and international framework…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, lignin, pollution, Indonesia, Asia, fire management, smoke management, peatland fire, PM2.5, lignin, n-alkane, Indonesia
Smoldering peat fires in Indonesia are responsible for large quantities of trace gas and particulate emissions. However, to date no satellite remote sensing technique has been demonstrated for the identification of smoldering peat fires. Fires have two distinct combustion phases…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, air quality, gases, particulates, remote sensing, Indonesia, Asia, fire management, forest management, peatlands, Landsat, fire eetection, peat fire, smoldering, flaming, Indonesia
Determining the relative role of various cues on seed germination in Mediterranean plants is important to understanding their response to variable conditions. We studied germination responses of 12 eastern Mediterranean Basin species (Alyssum caricum, A. minus, Carthamus…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, disturbance, seed germination, Pinus brutia, Turkish pine, Turkey, Asia, fire management, smoke management, Mediterranean habitats