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Oklahoma Forestry Services (OFS), a division of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry (ODAFF), is the state regulatory agency responsible for the oversight of forest and rangeland fire management programs. The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), is…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
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The planning process for the Minnesota Smoke Management Program document began early in 1999 with the formation of a subcommittee of the Minnesota Incident Command System (MNICS) Prescribed Fire and Fuels Working Team (PFFWT). Participants included representatives from the…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords:

The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities and successes in the Western…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), wildfire, wildland fire

The changes in the concentration and composition of biomass-burning organic aerosol (OA) downwind of a major wildfire are simulated using the one-dimensional Lagrangian chemical transport model PMCAMx-Trj. A base case scenario is developed based on realistic fire-plume…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: volatility basis set, biomass burning, air quality modeling, organic aerosols, wildfires, secondary organic aerosol, PM - particulate matter

The Black Summer fire season of 2019–2020 in southeastern Australia contributed to an intense ‘super outbreak’ of fire-induced and smoke-infused thunderstorms, known as pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb). More than half of the 38 observed pyroCbs injected smoke particles directly into…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, Black Summer fires, pyroCb, pyrocumulonimbus, smoke plumes, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric science, climate change impacts

Fire activity and severity is increasing in the high northern latitudes, including burning landscapes long thought to be "fire resistant." Across the Pan-Arctic, smoke impacts from lengthening fire seasons in the boreal and the Arctic mean new public health challenges, as well…
Person: McCarty
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Arctic region, climate change, black carbon, Russia, Canada, air quality, Siberia, agricultural fires, Scandinavia, burned area, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, cultural burning, Indigenous burning

The 2019–20 Australian fire season was heralded as emblematic of the catastrophic harm wrought by climate change. Similarly extreme wildfire seasons have occurred across the globe in recent years. Here, we apply a pyrogeographic lens to the recent Australian fires to examine the…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, demographics, climate change, adaptation, Australia, resilience, human health, policy, Black Summer fires, fire severity

Combining multiple sources of information on atmospheric composition, wildland fire emissions, and fire area burned, we link decadal air quality trends in Western US urban centers with wildland fire activity during the months of August and September for the years 2000–2019. We…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, AOD - aerosol optical depth, postwildfire, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, air quality, burned area, urban areas, respiratory health, generalized additive modeling

Wildfire activity in the western United States (US) has been increasing, a trend that has been correlated with changing patterns of temperature and precipitation associated with climate change. Health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke and fine particulate matter…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, climate change, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, wildfire, human health, emergency department visits, hospital visit, mortality, morbidity, black carbon, organic carbon

Emissions of ammonia (NH3), oxides of nitrogen (NOx; NO +NO2), and nitrous oxide (N2O) from biomass burning were quantified on a global scale for 2001 to 2015. On average biomass burning emissions at a global scale over the period were as follows: 4.53 ± 0.51 Tg NH3 year−1, 14.…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, biomass burning, wildfires, N2O - nitrous oxide, ammonia

Prescribed burning (PB) is a prominent source of PM2.5 in the southeastern US and exposure to PB smoke is a health risk. As demand for burning increases and stricter controls are implemented for other anthropogenic sources, PB emissions tend to be responsible for an increasing…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, air quality, Southwestern Georgia, sensors, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, human health

Smoke impacts from large wildfires are mounting, and the projection is for more such events in the future as the one experienced October 2017 in Northern California, and subsequently in 2018 and 2020. Further, the evidence is growing about the health impacts from these events…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: health impacts, WRF-SMOKE-CMAQ model, GOES-16, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, wildfires, air quality, remote sensing, human health

Key message: As climate change and forest management become the focus of various development agendas and the price of carbon rises in the market, the need for improving carbon sequestration and avoiding wildfires emissions increases. Prescribed burning interventions might play…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: forest management, carbon sequestration, ecosystem services, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal

This work presents the dynamics of fire occurrences, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, forest clearing, and degradation in the Brazilian Amazon during the period 2006–2019, which includes the approval of the new Brazilian Forest Code in 2012. The study was carried out in the…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, Amazon, rainforest, forest degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, remote sensing, deforestation

Crop residue burning is the major biomass burning activity in China, strongly influencing the regional air quality and climate. As the cultivation pattern in China is rather scattered and intricate, it is a challenge to derive an accurate emission inventory for crop residue…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: China, NOx emission factor, crop residue burning, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, FRP - Fire Radiative Power

Smoke from fires significantly influences climate, weather, and human health. Fire smoke is traditionally detected using an aerosol index calculated from spectral contrast changes. However, such methods usually miss thin smoke plumes. It also remains challenging to accurately…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: smoke detection, aerosol index, aerosol scattering, spectral signature, spatial standard deviation, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite

Digital dictionary for plot 6, 2015 Willow Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2015 Willow Fire, Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, low severity fire, moderate severity fire, burnout operation, fire suppression

Digital dictionary for plot 5, 2015 Willow Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2015 Willow Fire, Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, high severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, unmanaged fuels

Digital dictionary for plot 4, 2015 Willow Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2015 Willow Fire, Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels

Digital dictionary for plot 1, 2015 Willow Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2015 Willow Fire, Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, fire suppression

Digital dictionary for plot 5, 2006 Warm Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: 2006 Warm Fire, Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, light wind, moderate rate of spread, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire

Digital dictionary for plot 4, 2006 Warm Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: 2006 Warm Fire, Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels

Digital dictionary for plot 3, 2006 Warm Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: 2006 Warm Fire, Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, light wind, moderate rate of spread, surface fire, torching, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels

Digital dictionary for plot 1, 2006 Warm Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: 2006 Warm Fire, Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, light wind, high rate of spread, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels

Digital dictionary for plot 8, 2019 Walker Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2019 Walker Fire, Plumas National Forest, California, Plumas County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, burnout operation, unmanaged fuels