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Fire behavior video from the 2015 Rough Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Fresno County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, burnout operation, activity fuels, piled fuels, 2015 Rough Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Rough Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Fresno County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, burnout operation, activity fuels, piled fuels, 2015 Rough Fire
Biomass characterization and fire behavior documentation were carried out on two large (>2000 ha) experimental fires conducted in arid savanna fuels in Kruger National Park in September 1992. Prefire fuel loads, fuel consumption, spread rates, flame zone characteristics, and…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, backfires, biomass, convection, energy, experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, flame length, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, headfires, humidity, ignition, national parks, particulates, precipitation, rate of spread, sampling, savannas, South Africa, temperature, vegetation surveys, wind
From the text (p.117) ... 'In awe and supplication Mescalero Apache dancers honor flames on their New Mexico reservation. 'Fire is sacred to us,' says one Apache leader. 'It provides warmth, food, protection.' Most Americans, however, fear fire beyond the hearth and for decades…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: boreal forests, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, crown fires, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, Georgia, grasslands, lightning caused fires, Mexico, military lands, New Mexico, nongame birds, Picoides borealis, Pinus contorta, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus taeda, population density, post fire recovery, rate of spread, seed germination, Sequoia, smoke effects, Stoddard, H.L., surface fires, tallgrass prairies, understory vegetation, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
After replacement of tropical primary forests, fire becomes an important management tool. During establishment of plantations with fast-growing tree species and within slash-and-burn agriculture, the export of macronutrients and other elements to the atmosphere by burning was…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Amazon, ash, Brazil, clearcutting, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, land use, leaching, litter, nutrients, particulates, plantations, precipitation, slash, slash and burn, soil leaching, South America, tropical forests, volatilization, slash burning, nutrient release, humid tropics
Ozone generation is computed in a one-dimensional photochemistry code following convective redistribution of tropical urban effluent into the free troposphere. Simulations are run at several stages of pollutant dilution by surrounding surface air. A threshold boundary layer NOx…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Amazon, Brazil, convection, forest management, hydrocarbons, ozone, rate of spread, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, South America, storms, tropical forests, wildfires, wind
Atmospheric spectra reconstructed from interferometric measurements are susceptible to scene motion, which can be caused by changing environment or instrument jitter. This leads to a coupling between the time series of the modulated scene radiance and the interferogram collected…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, smoke management, Fourier Transform, remote sensing, interferometry, satellites, hyperspectral imaging, spectrometer, spacecraft, Jitter, Impact
In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies incentivize use of forest biomass as an energy source. Many governments have assumed (legislated) the carbon flux from burning biomass to be neutral because biomass growth sequesters CO2.…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, air quality, biomass, carbon dioxide, biogeochemical cycles, climate change, energy, fire management, forest management, bioenergy, climate change, forestry, life cycle analysis, discounting
In this study, we explored the relationships between the satellite-retrieved fire counts (FC), fire radiative power (FRP) and aerosol indices usingmulti-satellite datasets at a daily time-step covering ten different biomass burning regions in Asia. We first assessed the…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, Asia, Laos, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, vegetation surveys, fire management, smoke management, vegetation fires, absorbing aerosols, Smoke Plume Heights
Forest and peatland fires in Indonesia emit large quantities of smoke leading to poor air quality across Equatorial Asia. Marlier et al (2015 Environ. Res. Lett. 10 085005) explore the contribution of fires occurring on oil palm, timber (wood pulp and paper) and natural forest…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, air quality, logging, pollution, fire management, forest management, smoke management, deforestation, air quality, Indonesia, Concessions
Wildfire activity is predicted to increase with global climate change, resulting in longer fire seasons and larger areas burned. The emissions from fires are highly variable owing to differences in fuel, burning conditions and other external environmental factors. The smoke that…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Safety, Weather
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, Australia, Victoria, Canada, British Columbia, Indonesia, Asia, Singapore, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, health factors, hydrocarbons, Hg - mercury, ozone, particulates, fire management, smoke management, boreal forests, peatlands, savannas, tropical forests, Climate Effects on Emissions, forest fires, health impacts, Hg - mercury, particulate matter, smoke production
Fires associated with agricultural and plantation development in Indonesia impact ecosystem services and release emissions into the atmosphere that degrade regional air quality and contribute to greenhouse gas concentrations. In this study, we estimate the relative contributions…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, air quality, deforestation, forest products, logging, fire management, forest management, smoke management, Industrial Plantations, population exposure, deforestation
We revisited long-term observations of PM2.5 at ground-based stations in Japan during 2001-2012 to examine possible impacts of Siberian wildfires on regional air quality. Exceedances of Japan's air quality standard for daily mean concentration (35 mg m-3) were observed several…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire intensity, wildfires, Asia, Japan, Russia, Siberia, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management, PM2.5, forest fire, biomass burning, Siberia
Background: Millions of people can potentially be exposed to smoke from forest fires, making this an important public health problem in many countries. Objective: In this study we aimed to measure the association between out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and forest fire…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, season of fire, smoke effects, wildfires, Australia, Victoria, health factors, fire management, American-Heart-Association, European-Resuscitation-Council, fine particulate matter, air pollution, Rate-Variability, Stroke-Foundation, Daily Mortality, bushfire smoke, biomass smoke, time series
From the text...'The smokejumper program has always been very innovative, and this really is because the seven Forest Serice smokejumper bases are involved with the development work.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, Montana, US Forest Service, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'The plan was to parachute two military jumpers from a modified B-17, collect data and equipment from the Soviet ice station, and then extract the equipment and men using the Skyhook system...'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), Arctic, Washington, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'In closing, the para-cargo program is a proven cost-efficient, timely, and safe way to provide meals and suplies to firefighters in the field. Whatever firefighters need on the ground to do their job, they will received it through the para-cargo program.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, Idaho, fire management, smoke management
From the text: Firefighting, especially smokejumping, is an exercise in outlasting the uncomfortable. I think it has little to do with gender; rather it is each individual's assessment and subsequent reaction to a given situation.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firefighting personnel, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'A group of valiant men known as the Triple Nickles, the first African-American smokerjumpers, paved the way for so many in the smokejumping cadre...'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire injuries (humans), fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, wildfires, mortality, fire management, smoke management
From the text ... 'Smoke can be transported hundreds of miles downwind by prevailing winds or convective winds generated by fires themselves with concentrations sufficient to make it the most significant source of air pollution over large areas.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, climate change, pollution, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'The Klump Pump is a standard piece of equipment, outfitted with pump, hose, fittings, and foam. The idea was that it could be easily delivered to an incident and transported individually, by two- or three-unit trailers...'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'The mission was the same back then as it is today. The methods, tools, and rules for accomplishing that mission, however, were different back then than those of today.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, wildfires, New Mexico, education, national forests, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'In the Forest Service, we developed the Missoula, MT, junior smokejumper program to educate children about fire ecology, fire management, and smokejumping in an exciting and interactive learning environment.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Outreach
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: firefighting personnel, wildfires, Montana, education, public information, fire management, smoke management
From the text...'Smokejumpers come from all over the country and represent a very diverse and well-educated workforce.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire suppression (aerial), firefighting personnel, wildfires, education, fire management, smoke management
From the text ... 'One of the smokejumper program's defining characteristics is its commitment to innovation--a constant refinement of equipment and techniques that hearkens back to the program's earliest days.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire suppression (aerial), wildfires, fire management, smoke management