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Biomass burning is significant to emission estimates because: (1) it can be a major contributor of particulate matter and other pollutants; (2) it is one of the most poorly documented of all sources; (3) it can adversely affect human health; and (4) it has been identified as a…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, biomass, biomass burning, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, forest management, fuel loading, GIS, national parks, Oregon, ozone, particulates, pollution, private lands, radiation, range management, rangelands, remote sensing, smoke management, wildfires, biomass burning, remote sensing, area burned, Environmental Protection Agency, climate change, Arizona and Oregon
Data from multiple satellite remote sensors are integrated with ground measurements and meteorological data to study the impact of Greek forest fires in August 2007 on the air quality in Athens. Two pollution episodes were identified by ground
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Europe, fire management, Greece, pollution, remote sensing, smoke management, wildfires, MISR plume height, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, AOD - aerosol optical depth, OMI - Ozone Monitoring Instrument, Greek forest fires, HYSPLIT - Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory
Long-range transported particulate matter (PM) air pollution episodes associated with wildfires in the Eastern Europe are relatively common in Southern and Southeastern Finland. In severe cases such as in August-September 2002, the reduced visibility and smell of the smoke, and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Belarus, biomass, combustion, diseases, Europe, Finland, fire case histories, fire management, health factors, light, mortality, particulates, pollution, Russia, smoke effects, smoke management, toxicity, Ukraine, wildfires, PM2.5, mortality, uncontrolled biomass combustion, long-range transport, forest fire
Relative to the western United States, where fire and fuel management programs have received greater emphasis, few community-based studies have focused on the Great Lakes region. The present paper describes public opinion research from counties surrounding National Forests in…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: age classes, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel management, Great Lakes, insects, lakes, Michigan, Minnesota, national forests, population density, public information, recreation, site treatments, thinning, US Forest Service, water quality, windthrows, Wisconsin, citizen-agency interactions, fuels reduction, public confidence, social acceptance
We evaluate the fine-grain age patch model of fire regimes in southern California shrublands. Proponents contend that the historical condition was characterized by frequent small to moderate size, slow-moving smoldering fires, and that this regime has been disrupted by fire…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: age classes, BEHAVE, chaparral, distribution, droughts, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firebrands, flammability, Foehn winds, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, ignition, mosaic, range management, scrub, shrublands, southern California, suppression, wildfires, wind, 19th century, Baja California, chaparral, fine-grain age patch mosaic, high-intensity fires, megafires, sage scrub, Santa Ana winds
Accurate estimates of wildland fire perimeters and areas are essential for planning wildfire response, monitoring prescribed fire, estimating pollution emissions, and for other natural resource applications. Remote sensing can provide a low-cost and relatively accurate means to…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, wildfires, air quality, GIS, pollution, remote sensing, Pinus spp., pine, Apalachicola National Forest, north Florida, fire management, land management, coastal plain, flatwoods, pine forests, sandhills, swamps, Apalachicola National Forest, burn monitoring, CBI - composite burn index, depression swamp, dNBR - differenced Normalized Burn Ratio, ecological change, Sandhill, upland pine, wet flatwoods
To secure the long-term use of prescribed fire as a land management tool, The Nature Conservancy's Lake Wales Ridge Program has developed the Critical Smoke Dispersal Area (CSDA) GIS data layer for conservation sites associated with the Lake Wales Ridge in central Florida, USA.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, conservation, GIS, Lake Wales Ridge, Florida, fire management, land use, smoke management, Florida, GIS, Lake Wales Ridge, land-use planning, smoke management
An extremely fresh smoke plume (<5 h) was transported over Barcelona on 23 July 2009, just 5 h after an intense Saharan dust event finalized. Both events were observed by sun-photometer, lidar and satellite systems. Results indicate surprisingly large absorption of mixed dust…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, aerosols, dust, radiation, remote sensing, Spain, Europe, fire management, smoke management, fresh biomass burning, dust, LiDAR, direct radiative forcing
From the text ... 'The Encyclopedia of Southern fire Science (ESFS) is a web/based resource containing approximately 600 webpages of peer-reviewed fire science knowledge about the southern United States. Much of the information is equally applicable to other regions. Information…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildfires, computer networks, computer programs, research, fire management, smoke management
Fire regimes in many north Australian savanna regions are today characterised by frequent wildfires occurring in the latter part of the 7-month dry season. A fire management program instigated from 2005 over 24,000 km2 of biodiversity-rich Western Arnhem Land aims to reduce the…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire regimes, season of fire, wildfires, elevation, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, roads, Northern Territory of Australia, fire management, forest management, savannas, sloping terrain, fire management, greenhouse gas emissions, leverage, planned fire, unplanned fire, Australia
In the summer 2010 extensive wildfires in the western parts of Russia emitted massive amounts of smoke and aerosols into the atmosphere. These smoke plumes also drifted to Finland over 1000 km away from the fires. The smoke plumes were detected in Kuopio (Eastern Finland) with a…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire case histories, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, Finland, Russia, Europe, fire management, smoke management, biomass burning emissions, remote sensing, aerosols
The Global Fire Assimilation System (GFASv1.0) calculates biomass burning emissions by assimilating Fire Radiative Power (FRP) observations from the MODIS instruments onboard the Terra and Aqua satellites. It corrects for gaps in the observations, which are mostly due to cloud…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, statistical analysis, fire management
Large forest fires are a known natural and dominant disturbance factor in high northern latitudes, and form pyrocumulus (pyroCu), and occasionally pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds. These clouds can transport emissions into the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UT/LS) and…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire size, wildfires, radiation, remote sensing, Saskatchewan, Canada, fire management, smoke management, remote sensing, pyrocumulus, clouds, fires, biomass burning, radiometer, Monte Carlo, three-dimensional (3D) radiative transfer, dffusion approximations, airborne
This work presents the results of a photochemical modelling system composed of MM5-SMOKE-CMAQ on Brazilian Amazonia area, been a pioneered implementation task. These results focus on the biogenic and biomass burning emissions and the impact of these emissions on regional air…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, smoke effects, air quality, pollution, remote sensing, Brazil, South America, smoke management, Amazonia photochemical air quality, SMOKE emissions processing, CMAQ forecasting, Brazil, air pollution, SMOKE-CMAQ models, dispersion modelling, anthropogenic emissions, biomass burning, biogenic emissions
[From text] The second EastFIRE Conference, held at George Mason University, June 5-8, 2007, brought together researchers, land managers, and technicians to share information on remote sensing applications to wildland fires in the eastern states. Based on the session chair’s…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Planning
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: wildfires, remote sensing
This paper uses multi-sensor remote sensing data to study the type and spatio-temporal variability of aerosols emitted from forest fires. The study is based on the Okefenokee Swamp fire that ravaged parts of Georgia and Florida between May and June of 2007. Moderate Resolution…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire case histories, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, Florida, Georgia, fire management, forest management, smoke management, forest fires, aerosols
Since 2004, the National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis (NCLFA) has deployed broadband radio equipment coupled with strategic monitoring technologies to support management of wildland fires in remote areas of the western United States. Wireless broadband radios and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Intelligence, Outreach, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: fire case histories, wildfires, education, public information, remote sensing, Montana, Washington, fire management, communication, fire management, public outreach and education, remote cameras, surveillance, wireless technologies
Fire and Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) have coexisted for millennia in the central hardwoods region, yet past declines in populations of this endangered species, and the imperative of fire use in oak silviculture and ecosystem conservation, call for an analysis of both the risks…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: habitat disturbance, smoke exposure, Kentucky, Daniel Boone National Forest, Myotis sodalis, Indiana bat, bark, conservation, diameter classes, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (animals), fire management, forage, forest management, habits and behavior, hardwood forest, ignition, mortality, national forests, nesting, oak, Quercus, remote sensing, reproduction, size classes, small mammals, smoke effects, smoke management, threatened and endangered species, wildlife habitat management
Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning, are often challenged…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, smoke emissions, smoke management, smoke science research
Observed climate changes in the Western Mountains and Forests bioregion include increased seasonal, annual, minimum, and maximum temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and a shift toward earlier timing of peak runoff. These climatic changes have resulted in widespread…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Planning
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: climate change, greenhouse gases, impacts, management plan, sustainability strategies, Western Mountains and Forests bioregion
As new information has recently accumulated, the purpose of this symposium is to bring researchers in this field together to discuss recent findings and their applications. Major topics include: 1) biomass burning emission characterization; 2) linking emissions to ambient…
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Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, symposium
Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection…
Person: Werth
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire weather, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, extreme fire behavior, spot fires, vortices, smoke plumes, SWFSC - Southwest Fire Science Consortium, fire interactions, fire weather patterns, crown fire dynamics
This study has assessed the seasonal occurrence of annual vegetation fires and defined inter-seasonally burned area for the different vegetation cover types across Ghana and the northern region of Ghana using 10-year (2001-2010) remote sensing data. These values were used with…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, C - carbon, cover, greenhouse gases, nutrients, phosphorus, remote sensing, Ghana, Africa, fire management, forest management, smoke management, savannas, bushfire, land cover, atmospheric nutrient deposition, carbon emissions, soil P loss, food security
We used land-cover maps and active fire detection based on satellite imagery to evaluate the rates and spatial distribution of peatland deforestation in Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2010. Over this time period, the proportion of forest cover in the peatlands of Peninsular…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Aquatic
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cover, deforestation, mosaic, remote sensing, Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sumatra, Asia, fire management, forest management, peatlands, swamps
Area burned is one of four primary parameters necessary for estimating biomass burning emissions, and it is a parameter than remains illusive, particularly if we include all area burned. In this report, we compare the intensive 2002 ground-based data for the western United…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, biomass, biomass burning, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, Colorado, ENSO, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, forest management, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, private lands, range management, rangelands, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, wildfires, Wyoming