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Domestic biomass fuels (biofuels) were recently estimated to be the second largest source of carbon emissions from global biomass burning. Wood and charcoal provide approximately 90% and 10% of domestic energy in tropical Africa. In September 2000, we used open-path Fourier…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, biofuel, Zambia
The Environmental Consequences Team is developing an information delivery system about potential environmental consequences of fuel treatment activities. Broadly, these activities include thinning and burning, and associated work. The environmental consequences of these…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel treatments, thinning, burning, air quality, ecology, environmental impact analysis, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel management, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, water
Understanding the trade-offs between short-term and long-term consequences of fire impacts on ecosystems is needed before a comprehensive fuels management program can be implemented nationally. We are evaluating 3 potential trade-off models at 8 locations in major U.S. fuel…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, fuel treatments, SIMPPLLE - SIMulating Vegetative Patterns and Processes at Landscape scaLEs, VDDT - Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool, landscape modeling, Montana, MAGIS - Multi-resource Analysis and Geographic Information System, Bitterroot National Forest, LANDSUM - LANDscape SUccession Model, air quality, bibliographies, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, fire management, fuel management, insects, landscape ecology, logging, national forests, pine forests, plant diseases, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, plant diseases, private lands, rate of spread, Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii, regeneration, reproduction, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, shelterwood, size classes, smoke behavior, succession, topography, vegetation surveys, wildfires
To assess public attitudes and values regarding fires and fire management, a telephone survey was conducted of California residents. Most respondents were concerned about wildland and wilderness fires. The greatest percentage agreed that 'we probably have to let some fires burn…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire management, public opinion, air quality, ecosystem dynamics, education, property damage, National Fire Plan, fire suppression, land use, Native Americans, public information, recreation, site treatments, statistical analysis, thinning, wilderness fire management, US Forest Service, wildfires
Numerical modeling of the behavior of fire and smoke within proposed building atria have revealed the possible presence of violent fire whirls or fire tornadoes induced by an inadvertent combination of ventilation and exhaust openings. Such fire vortexes can accelerate…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: physical modeling, CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics, fire whirls, building atriums, HVAC
A recent letter [Fromm et al., 2000] postulated a link between boreal forest fire smoke and observed stratospheric aerosol enhancements in 1998. Therein a case was made that severe convection played a role in the cross-tropopause transport. A similar occurrence of stratospheric…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, forest fire, convection, aerosol, troposphere-to-stratosphere transport (TST), supercell
Biomass burning is a major source of many atmospheric trace gases and aerosol particles (Crutzen and Andreae 1990). These compounds and particulates affect public health, regional air quality, air chemistry, and global climate. It is difficult to assess quantitatively the impact…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fuel treatments, Hayman Fire, wildfire, biomass, Colorado, MODIS satellite
BlueSky, a National Fire Plan product, provides real-time predictions of surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities to aid land managers in burn/no-burn decisions. One critical component of BlueSky that remains to be addressed,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky Modeling Framework, fire management, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, smoke concentration, smoke impacts, smoke modeling
A powerpoint presentation describing the advanced features of the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), version 5.0 computer program that covers the advanced use of soil heating and Burnup modules, batch mode and linking FOFEM to GIS.
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model
A powerpoint presentation describing the basic use of the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), version 5.0 computer program covering background information, FOFEM modules, inputs and outputs, step-by-step exercises and saving FOFEM projects and output.
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model
A powerpoint presentation describing the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), version 5.0 computer program.
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) was completed with Joint Fire Science Program support in 2000 under a 1998-2000 project called, 'Assessing Values of Air Quality and Visibility at Risk from Wildland Fires.' It is a twice-daily, 30- year database of surface wind…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: VCIS - Ventilation Climate Information System, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, mixing height, surface wind, ventilation index, wind speed
This program calculates the consumption of fuel, emission of particles, and dispersion of thesepollutants produced by prescribed burning of forest and range vegetation.
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel consumption, particles, SASEM - Simple Approach Smoke Estimation Model
Many areas of the boreal forest of Alaska contain deep layers of moss, duff, and peat, resulting in a large pool of biomass that potentially can burn and smolder for long periods of time creating hazardous smoke episodes for local residents and communities and causing…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, duff consumption, fire management, fuel consumption, wildfire, biomass, Consume 3.0, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, moss, fuelbeds
Research to quantify fuel consumption and flammability in shrub-dominated ecosystems has received little attention despite the widespread occurrence of fire-influenced, shrub-dominated landscapes across the arid lands of the western United States. While some research has…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: CONSUME, fire management, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, land management planning, fuel flammability, fuel consumption, shrub dominated ecosystems
Many areas of the boreal forest of Alaska contain deep layers of moss, duff, and peat, resulting in a large pool of biomass that can potentially can burn and smolder for long periods of time creating hazardous smoke episode for local residents and communities and causing…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, duff consumption, fire management, fuel consumption, wildfire, biomass, Consume 3.0, moss, fuelbeds
The Joint Fire Science program funded a 3-year study to measure and model the forest floor consumption and sample flaming and smoldering emissions during wildfire and prescribed fires in the boreal forests of Alaska. During the summer of 2003, fuel consumption was measured at 5…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, consumption, wildfire, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, forest floor consumption, smoke characterization
This study uses panel data from a mail survey administered to the same individuals in 1996 and 2000 to measure change in public attitudes toward fire management programs on federal lands in eastern Oregon and Washington. Findings were generally similar between 1996 and 2000, but…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: survey, fire management, public opinion, thinning, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management planning, fuel loading, mountains, Oregon, plant diseases, public information, rural communities, smoke effects, smoke management, US Forest Service, Washington
The NWCG Wildland and Prescribed Fire Qualifications System is a "performance-based" qualifications system. In this system, the primary criterion for qualification is individual performance as observed by an evaluator using approved standards. This system differs from previous…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: training, NWCG - National Wildfire Coordinating Group, smoke management
The primary objective of this work is to assess the local, regional, and national risks to air quality and visibility from wildland fire. This will be done by generating and analyzing statistics of daily and nightly variability of surface wind, mixing height, and dispersion…
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Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, visibility, dispersion
Vertical profiles in the lower troposphere of temperature, relative humidity, sulfur dioxide (SO2), ozone (O3), condensation nuclei (CN), and carbon monoxide (CO), and horizontal distributions of twenty gaseous and particulate species, are presented for five regions of southern…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, gases, particles, Africa, trace gas emissions, biomass burning
Fire is an important pathway for carbon (C) loss from boreal forest ecosystems and has a strong effect on ecosystem C balance. Fires can range widely in severity, defined as the amount of vegetation and forest floor consumed by fire, depending on local fuel and climatic…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, carbon balance, fire severity, wildfire, CO2 - carbon dioxide
Understanding the effects of wildfire on the carbon (C) cycle of boreal forests is essential to quantifying the role of boreal forests in the global carbon cycle. Soil surface CO2 flux (Rs), the second largest C flux in boreal forests, is directly and indirectly affected by fire…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, soils, black spruce, carbon cycle, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Manitoba, Picea mariana, soil carbon and nitrogen
Postfire changes in the local energy balance and soil chemistry may significantly alter rates of carbon turnover in organic-rich soils of boreal forests. This study combines field measurements of soil carbon uptake and emission along a 140-year chronosequence of burned black…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, forest floor, black spruce, Picea mariana, soil carbon
Lists the conference proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management (Nov. 11-16, 2003 in Orlando, Florida).
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Year: 2003
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: proceedings