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Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, Australia, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, digital data collection, distribution, droughts, energy, eucalyptus, fire control, fire frequency, fire scar analysis, fuel types, Georgia, grasslands, greenhouse gases, land management, mosaic, Northern Territory of Australia, nutrients, particulates, plant growth, precipitation, radiation, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, statistical analysis, understory vegetation, biomass burning, NOAA-AVHRR (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer), fire mosaic, fire scar, Northern Territory of Australia, gaseous emissions, anthropogenic effects

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Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: bacteria, bark, carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, deciduous forests, fire growth, fire retardants, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel arrangement, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fungi, Georgia, heat, ignition, leaves, litter, logging, microorganisms, moisture, national forests, needles, Oregon, organic matter, private lands, public information, remote sensing, slash, soil moisture, soil organic matter, spontaneous combustion, temperature, wood, woody fuels, spontaneous ignition, forest residue, wood chips, slash, CHIP PILE, SAWDUST

A study of smoke exposure at prescribed fires was done by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station and Radian Corporation between 1991 and 1994. This study was done to assess exposure to smoke among firefighters at prescribed fires in the Pacific Northwest.…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke exposure

Major wildfires have affected millions of acres of forest lands in the continental United States during recent years. Often, these wildfires burn through intensively managed, timber producing areas. This study presents a comparison of fuel consumption, soil fire severity, and…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fuel consumption, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Oregon, smoke production, soil fire severity, slash treatment, broadcast burning, clearcut, CONSUME, logging slash, Willamette National Forest, downed woody fuels, duff, Shady Beach Fire, fuel treatments, wildfire effects, emission production, soil fire severity

A smoke emissions production model (EPM) was developed by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station about 10 years ago. Since then, the model has been coded into a computer module and integrated into a variety of other computer programs. The module, EPM,…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: broadcast burning, EPM - Emissions Production Model, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke dispersion, smoke models, smoldering phase