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A statistical model, based on numerical weather prediction (NWP), is developed to predict the subsequent day's satellite observations of fire activity in the North American boreal forest during the fire season (24-h forecast). In conjunction with the six components of the…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire weather, satellite, statistics, wildfire, numerical weather prediction, fire danger rating, season of fire, air quality, remote sensing, fire management, smoke management
We investigate the influence of wildfire smoke aerosols on cloud microphysics and precipitation using a coupled aerosol-cloud microphysics-meteorology model WRF-Chem-SMOKE. The Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm products are used to compute 'online' hourly size- and…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Canada, precipitation, clouds, biomass burning
On 28 September 2009, the Naches Ranger District on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in south-central Washington State ignited an 800-ha prescribed fire. Later that afternoon, elevated PM2.5 concentrations and visible smoke were reported in Yakima, Washington, about 40 km…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire weather, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, decision support, smoke dispersion, smoke modeling, Washington, BlueSky Modeling Framework, Weather Research and Forecasting model
Temperate peatlands represent a substantial store of carbon and their degradation is a potentially significant positive feedback to climate change. The ignition of peat deposits can cause smouldering wildfires that have the potential to release substantial amounts of carbon and…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire danger, fire intensity, peat fires, carbon emissions, depth of burn, fuel consumption, smoldering fires, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, Scotland
Modeling fire effects, including terrestrial and atmospheric carbon fluxes and pollutant emissions during wildland fires, requires accurate predictions of fuel consumption. Empirical models were developed for predicting fuel consumption from fuel and environmental measurements…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fuel loading, gallberry, longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, saw palmetto, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, shrubs, pine flatwoods, fuel consumption, fire size, fuel moisture, wildfires, air quality, duff, herbaceous vegetation, litter, national forests, statistical analysis, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, Aristida stricta, wiregrass, Ilex glabra, Picoides borealis, red-cockaded woodpeckers, Pinus elliottii, slash pine, Pinus serotina, pond pine, Quercus chapmanii, Chapman oak, Quercus minima, dwarf live oak, Serenoa repens, Apalachicola National Forest, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, Georgia, flatwoods, fire management, forest management, fuel management, pine forests
Fire disturbance is a primary driver of forest dynamics across the circumpolar boreal region, although there are major differences in continental fire regimes. Relatively infrequent, high intensity crown fires dominate North American boreal forests, and low to moderate intensity…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire regimes, carbon emissions, Russia, global climate models, fire intensity, fire size, surface fires, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, climate change, disturbance, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests
Boreal forest dynamics are largely driven by disturbance, and fire is a prevalent force of change across the boreal circumpolar region. North American and Eurasian boreal fire regimes are known to be very different but there are few quantitative comparison studies. Russian and…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire regimes, carbon emissions, Russia, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fuel loading, fuel types, rate of spread, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, fire management, forest management
Fire radiative power (FRP) over a pixel area has been highlighted as a valuable parameter for quantitatively deriving smoke emissions. However, smoke plume rise forecasts and characterizations of fire intensity require additional information, including the FRP over the fire area…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: atmosphere, fire area, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, temperature, radiative transfer regime, biomass burning, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, water vapor, emissivity
The increasing trends in aerosol concentrations observed by the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) network in the wilderness areas along the Gulf of Alaska during low insolation periods and in Denali National Park and Preserve (Denali NP) during…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: air quality, wilderness areas, aerosols, wildfires, IMPROVE, WRF-Chem, Denali National Park and Preserve, visibility, insolation
The objective of this project is to calculate the sensitivities of pollutant concentrations, predicted with air quality models, to meteorological inputs and apply these estimates to quantify meteorology-related uncertainty in fire simulations. The results of this work will…
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Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, simulation, forecasting, meteorology, pollution, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting
This video is the third in a series describing fire in the Great Plains. The series features ranchers in the region and local experts discussing prescribed fire. This video focuses on challenges land owners face when using prescribed fire. Ranchers talk about how they overcome…
Person: Moore
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: burn plans, public perception, smoke management, prairie management
Presentation by Casey Sullivan, Meteorologist and Forecaster with the National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville office. Recorded at the 2013 Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Regional Fire Conference in Dubuque, Iowa.
Person: Sullivan
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: inversion, mixing height, smoke dispersion, relative humidity, transport winds, ventilation rate
Heidi Strader presented this talk on weather conditions important to smoke management in prescribed fire planning at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This introductory (RX410 Unit 7) talk covers weather terms definitions, effects…
Person: Strader
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: atmospheric stability, inversion, lapse rate, lifting processes, marine inversion, smoke dispersion, subsidence inversion, wind shear, parcel model theory, adiabatic lapse rate
Temperate peatlands represent a substantial store of carbon and their degradation is a potentially significant positive feedback to climate change. The ignition of peat deposits can cause smouldering wildfires that have the potential to release substantial amounts of carbon and…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, peat fires, wildfires, C - carbon, national parks, peat, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe, fire management, forest management, peatlands, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, carbon emissions, depth of burn, fire danger, fire severity, fuel consumption
Because it is an important regulator of terrestrial carbon cycling in North America, extensive research on natural and human disturbances has been carried out as part of the North American Carbon Program and the CarboNA project. A synthesis of various components of this research…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire size, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, elevation, disturbance, insects, mineral soils, nutrient cycling, photosynthesis, plant diseases, soil temperature, soils, woody plants, Canada, fire management, forest management