Type
Topic
Region
Year
Displaying 351 - 364 of 364
The datasets distributed from the new "County Profiles" portal are designed to be used for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change compliant fire activity reporting and emission inventories. From the new portal, users can access tables, maps and interactive charts that…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: GWIS - Global Wildfire Information System, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, GlobFire, datasets, burned area, remote sensing
The 2019–2020 summer wildfire event on the east coast of Australia was a series of major wildfires occurring from November 2019 to end of January 2020 across the states of Queensland, New South Wales (NSW), Victoria and South Australia. The wildfires were unprecedent in scope…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, WRF-Chem, wildfires, pollutant transport, air quality, health impacts, smoke plumes, smoke transport
The monitoring of wildfire smoke is important to help mitigate impacts on people such as by sending early warnings to affected areas. Received signal levels (RSLs) from radio links have been used as an opportunistic way to accurately measure rainfall and humidity. Radio links…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, PM - particulate matter, Australia, smoke measurements
Australian wildfires burning from December 2019 to January 2020 injected approximately 0.9 Tg of smoke into the stratosphere; this is the largest amount observed in the satellite era. A comparison of numerical simulations to satellite observations of the plume rise suggests that…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, pyroCb, stratospheric smoke, radiative forcing, ozone depletion, climate modeling
Aerosol pollution has become an increasingly serious problem in China. Among the multiple factors causing aerosol pollution, wildfires in China are occurring more frequently and have gradually become one of the most important contributing factors. However, little is known about…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, AOD - aerosol optical depth, burning areas, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, geodetector model, aerosol pollution, fire frequency
A new algorithm is described for joint retrievals of the aerosol optical depth and spectral absorption from EPIC observations in the UV—Vis spectral range. The retrievals are illustrated on examples of the wildfire smoke events over North America, and dust storms over greater…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: EPIC, MAIAC - Multi‐angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction, aerosol, biomass burning, mineral dust, spectral absorption
The future status of peatlands as carbon stores/sinks is uncertain given current and predicted environmental change. Several factors can affect the magnitude of the peatland carbon sink including disturbances such as wildfire. There is at present little evidence of how wildfire…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Scotland, fire severity, C - carbon, carbon flux, CH4 - methane, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Calluna vulgaris, CBI - composite burn index, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, United Kingdom, peatland, wildfire
A physics/chemistry-based numerical model for predicting the emission of fine particles from wildfires is proposed. This model implements the fundamental mechanisms of soot formation in a combustion environment: soot nucleation, surface growth, agglomeration, oxidation, and…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission factor, wildfire modeling, soot formation, particulate emissions, fire simulations, HIGRAD, FIRETEC
This work presents the results of a virtual reality (VR) experiment aiming at investigating how individual driving behaviour is affected by the presence of wildfire smoke. The experiment included a driving simulation task to study the chosen driving speed at different smoke…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: driving speed, driving behavior, wildfires, smoke density, evacuation traffic modelling, Sweden
First Nation reserves in Canada are at high risk from wildfires, with many evacuated every year. There is a need to understand how First Nations are affected by wildfire evacuations to identify ways to reduce negative impacts. The First Nations Wildfire Evacuation Partnership…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, evacuation, wildfires, human factors, Indigenous, isolated communities, First Nations, health impacts
Particle mass and number of smoke aerosol exposures of firefighters were studied during prescribed fire events. In addition, organic and elemental carbon, functional content and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons were determined by spectrometric and chromatographic methods.…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: NMR spectroscopy, functional composition, GC-MS, BaP - benzo(a)pyrene, wildfire smoke, particle number, firefighters, firefighter health, Alabama
From the text:'Among Forest Service activities, prescribed burning, slash disposal and forest fires present the greatest potential for polluting the air. But at this time we do not know what kind of pollution it is, how dangerous it is, how much of it there is, if it is a…
Person:
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, burning permits, education, fire control, forest management, hardwood forests, natural resource legislation, Oregon, pine forests, pollution, public information, range management, rangelands, rural communities, slash, smoke management, US Forest Service, Washington, wildfires
This study was established to determine: (1) the effect of a prescribed burn during the spring and summer seasons on wildlife habitat with particular emphasis on bobwhite quail food plants, and (2) the relation between various site and stand factors of the loblolly pine…
Person:
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, Bonasa umbellus, burning intervals, Castor canadensis, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, Desmodium, Didelphis marsupialis, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forage, Georgia, ground cover, herbaceous vegetation, land management, legumes, Lespedeza, litter, loblolly pine, Lynx rufus, meteagri gallopavo, North Carolina, Odocoileus virginianus, Phytophthora cinnamomi, Piedmont, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, plant growth, pollution, Procyon, Sciurus carolinensis, seed production, small mammals, soils, South Carolina, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, succession, surface fires, Sylvilagus floridanus , Urocyon cinereoargenteus, Ursus americanus, Virginia, Vulpes vulpes, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants
Wildfires have an important role in the ecological process affecting ecosystems at multiple spatial scales. MCD64A1 500 m burned area product is used in this study to document trends of fire events from 2001 to 2019. The research aims to analyze the trend of burned areas in the…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Iran, land cover, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, remote sensing, wildfires, burned area, climate change, slope, air pollution, fire trends