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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, 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: aerosols, air quality, biomass, fine fuels, fire frequency, fire management, fuel loading, gases, particulates, remote sensing, smoke management, biomass burning emissions modeling, remote sensing, fuel consumption
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, boreal forests, Canada, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, evolution, fire regimes, forest management, genetics, Glaucomys volans, climate change, Great Lakes, greenhouse gases, Ontario, Picea engelmannii, Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), subalpine forests, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, Tsuga mertensiana, tundra, wetlands, climate change, ecodiversity, forest, ecosystem diversity, species diversity, genetic diversity, ECOSYSTEM HIERARCHY, ECOLOGICAL LAND CLASSIFICATION TERMINOLOGY, ALPINE ECOSYSTEMS, aspen parkland
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: aborigines, agriculture, air quality, Australia, backfires, Canada, chaparral, chemical compounds, coniferous forests, distribution, fire adaptations (plants), fire management, fire suppression, forage, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, human caused fires, hunting, land management, land use, lightning caused fires, mammals, National Fire Plan, national parks, Native Americans, Northern Territory of Australia, Pinus ponderosa, plant growth, presettlement fires, regeneration, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, sprouting, US Forest Service, wildfires
Combustion of woody material produces and releases water, but the effects of this water on the atmospheric circulation created by a wildfire are rarely recognized, let alone understood. This paper presents observational data and basic physical arguments to support the hypothesis…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Arizona, Canada, combustion, convection, evapotranspiration, fire management, flame length, Florida, fuel moisture, heat, Idaho, Michigan, military lands, Minnesota, moisture, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, temperature, Washington, water, wildfires, wood chemistry
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, combustion, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, fuel appraisal, fuel management, GIS, season of fire, smoke management, wildfires
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Betula papyrifera, boreal forests, buds, Canada, carbon dioxide, Choristoneura fumiferana, coniferous forests, dendrochronology, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, evergreens, fire danger rating, fire intensity, foliage, forest management, histories, insects, Larix laricina, Malacosoma, Manitoba, needles, phenology, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, plant diseases, plant growth, Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides, prairies, precipitation, Pristiphora erichsonii, size classes, soil moisture, statistical analysis, temperature, vegetation surveys, wildfires, xeric soils
The regional nature of several important air pollutants, which include acids, ozone, particulate matter, mercury, and persistent organics (POPs), is widely recognized by researchers and decision makers. Such pollutants are transported regionally over scales from about 100 to a…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Climate
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke effects, air quality, climate change, Hg - mercury, ozone, particulates, pollution, smoke management, ozone, particulates, Hg - mercury, POPs
The following list of research topics was generated by agencies within AWFCG during 2005. The topics were ranked originally by the AWFCG Fire Research and Development Committee (FRDAC) and finally by the AWFCG members. Ranking was as follows: 3= high, 2 = medium, 1= low (or H…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass, Canada, droughts, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Indonesia, land use, litter, Malaysia, pollution, remote sensing, smoke effects, spot fires, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires, fire management, tropical forest management, vegetation fires, forest fires, land fires, hotspots, fire detection
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, adaptation, age classes, arachnids, arthropods, boreal forests, Calathus ingratus, Canada, Carabidae, Cladium, clearcutting, Coleoptera, community ecology, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, forest management, grasslands, ground cover, habitat suitability, habitat types, habits and behavior, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, histories, insects, invertebrates, Kalmia angustifolia , landscape ecology, Larix laricina, Ledum groenlandicum, lichen moss fuels, lichens, logging, mortality, mosses, Picea mariana, population density, population ecology, Quebec, regeneration, reproduction, soils, statistical analysis, temperature, trapping, understory vegetation, Vaccinium, wildfires, xeric soils, boreal forest, community response, disturbance, forest fire, ground beetles, logging, fire-prone landscapes, PTEROSTICHUS BREVICORNIS
From the text ... 'The August 2004 issue of the Canadian Journal of forest Research (volume 34[8]) is devoted to a special topic: 'The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in Canada's Northwest Territories: Advancing the Science of Fire Behaviour.' Running from…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, charcoal, crown fires, experimental fires, fire management, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel types, histories, Northwest Territories, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, regeneration, sedimentation, Tall Timbers Research Station, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife
Forest-fire policy of U.S. federal agencies has evolved from the use of small patrols in newly created National Parks to diverse policy initiatives and institutional arrangements that affect millions of hectares of forests. Even with large expenditures and substantial…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire hazard, fire suppression, fuel management, forest policy, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, conservation, dead fuels, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental assessment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire size, forest management, fuel types, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, litter, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, public information, shrubs, smoke management, surface fires, thinning, threatened and endangered species, US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness fire management, woody fuels, wildfires, wildlife refuges
C4 photosynthesis had a mid-Tertiary origin that was tied to declining atmospheric CO2, but C4-dominated grasslands did not appear until late Tertiary. According to the 'CO2-threshold' model, these C4 grasslands owe their origin to a further late Miocene decline in CO2 that gave…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: grasslands, photosynthesis, savannas, woodland, miocene, paleosols, biomass, CO2 - carbon dioxide, charcoal, deserts, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel moisture, light, lightning caused fires, mesic soils, paleoecology, plant communities, population density, precipitation, range management, temperature, xeric soils, wildfires
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites provides global fire observations of unprecedented quality. This paper presents spatial and temporal distributions of active fires from 2001 and 2002, the…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: diurnal cycle, land cover, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, time series, satellite remote sensing, annual cycle, global fire activity, North America, South America, Africa, agriculture, Asia, Australia, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, evergreens, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, gases, climate change, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, natural areas management, population density, remote sensing, season of fire, savannas, shrublands, temperature, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, wetlands, wildfires
Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report
This document summarizes a study to evaluate the feasibility of using the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) to assist in implementing four Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) policies on fire, described below. This report provides the Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF) with…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, FFE-FVS - Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator, SIMPPLLE - SIMulating Vegetative Patterns and Processes at Landscape scaLEs, VDDT - Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool, landscape model
Diseases caused by fungi - Diseases caused by Oomycota - Bacterial diseases - Viral diseases - Diseases caused by nematodes - Plant-pathogenic algae and plants - Declines, environmental damage, and unexplained growth abnormalities - Restoration of sapwood and bark after injury…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: shrubs, trees, diseases
Extensive bibliographic list of references on Alaska wildfire from the Geophysical Institute.
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: bibliography
Monitoring and predicting ozone concentrations are a matter of special concern because ozone is one of the most important plant-damaging air pollutants in the world. High ozone concentrations have been shown to be harmful to plants not only within urban areas but also in remote…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ozone, air quality, air temperature, climatology, fire management, histories, humidity, national forests, national parks, pollution, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wind
Combustion of woody material produces and releases water, but the effects of this water on the atmospheric circulation created by a wildfire are rarely recognized, let alone understood. This paper presents observational data and basic physical arguments to support the hypothesis…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion, convection, plume, downdraft
A total area of 26,669 km2 (6.59 million acres) burned from forest fires in Alaska during the summer of 2004, setting a new record in the 50-year database. The unusually warm and dry weather was a predominant factor for the wildfire season in which it was the warmest on record…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: air quality, fire weather, particulates, 2004 fire season, climatology, drought, forest fires
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Siberia
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: aerosols, Russia, Siberia
Biomass burning is an important source of many atmospheric trace gases and aerosol particles. Quantitative characterization of biomass burning emissions is critical for modeling atmospheric chemistry and assessing the impact of fires on air quality, tropospheric ozone chemistry…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International
Keywords: Canada, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Mexico, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, aerosol particles
The geographic focus of the 'Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration' project (known as the Fuels Synthesis Project) is on the dry forests of the Western United States. Project goals include developing accessible analyses, protocols, and tools; writing peer-reviewed…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: dry forests, fuels management, fuels reduction