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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, education, experimental fires, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flammability, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, histories, ignition, low intensity burns, population density, population ecology, post fire recovery, private lands, public information, rural communities, season of fire, smoke effects, succession, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, biomass, cover, decomposition, elevation, fire management, fire size, forest products, grasslands, habitat conversion, habitat suitability, human caused fires, ignition, Indonesia, land management, land use, landscape ecology, logging, mosaic, plantations, private lands, season of fire, second growth forests, soils, Sumatra, topography, tropical forests, wildfires
Forest and agricultural burning release chemical compounds and particulate matter into the atmosphere. Although most of this material contributes to visibility reductions through haze and provides chemical constituents available for reactions with other atmospheric pollutants,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, chemical compounds, fire management, fuel moisture, humidity, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, moisture, particulates, photography, pollution, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, water, wildfires
BlueSky is a real-time smoke forecast system that predicts surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities. Developed by the USDA Forest Service in cooperation with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is a tool used by…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, catastrophic fires, chemical elements, competition, computer networks, computer programs, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel types, GIS, grass fires, health factors, histories, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, Montana, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, suppression, topography, US Forest Service, Washington, wilderness areas, wildfires
Airshed characterizations were developed to provide a mid-scale air quality assessment in support of programmatic and project level land management planning processes. These airshed assessments were developed to serve as a consistent and systematic approach for evaluating air…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, cover, fire management, fire regimes, GIS, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, landscape ecology, Montana, mountains, national forests, Nevada, Oregon, remote sensing, smoke management, statistical analysis, Utah, Washington, wilderness areas, wildfires
Reliable forecasting of regional weather and wind flow patterns is critical for effective fighting of wildland fires and operational management of prescribed burns. Accurate forecast of future wind fields, relative humidity, and stability are essential for predicting fire…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biogeography, computer programs, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, GIS, health factors, heat, histories, humidity, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, water, weather observations, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
FOFEM 5.0 is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. FOFEM predicts tree mortality from surface fire, based on flame length or scorch height, and tree species and size. It…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, chemical elements, computer programs, diameter classes, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, flame length, fuel appraisal, fuel moisture, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, mortality, post fire recovery, salvage, scorch, size classes, smoke behavior, soil temperature, soils, statistical analysis, surface fires, wildfires, woody fuels
Pinus hartwegii is found in 17 states in Mexico, from 3 000 to more than 4 000 m above sea level. It is typical of the highest portions of mountains and above 3 500 m forms pure open stands associated with grasses and some shrubs. Among the natural disturbances that are…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: bark, coniferous forests, conservation, cover type conversion, crown scorch, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, flame length, forbs, grasses, grasslands, grazing, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lightning, low intensity burns, Mexico, mortality, mountains, native species (plants), pine forests, pine, Pinus hartwegii, public information, scorch, season of fire, seeds, shrubs, succession, surface fires, thinning, threatened and endangered species (plants), trees, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind, wood
'Painting, architecture, politics, even gardening and golf-all have their critics and commentators,' observes Stephen Pyne. 'Fire does not.' Aside from news reports on fire disasters, most writing about fire appears in government reports and scientific papers-and in journalism…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fire suppression, fire policy
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerial ignition, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, crowns, droughts, fire case histories, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flame length, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, health factors, Idaho, national forests, Pinus contorta, rate of spread, statistical analysis, surface fuels, topography, Washington, wildfires, wind
The Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behaviour over time, in the context of stand development and management. Existing models of fire behavior and fire effects were added to FVS to form this…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: age classes, biomass, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, chaparral, computer programs, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, decay, decomposition, diameter classes, distribution, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, flame length, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, grasses, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, Idaho, insects, leaves, litter, live fuels, logging, moisture, Montana, mortality, needles, northern California, Oregon, particulates, salvage, scorch, shrubs, size classes, snags, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, succession, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels, FVS, FFE, forest fire, stand dynamics, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, BEHAVE, NEXUS, snags, coarse, woody debris, FARSITE, TETONS
An Autonomous Fire Detector (AFD) is a miniature electronic package combining position location capability [using the Global Positioning System (GPS)], communications (packet or voice-synthesized radio), and fire detection capability (thermal, gas, smoke detector) into an…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: remote sensing, fire detection, fire monitoring, field systems, local fire detection, AFD - Autonomous Fire Detector , CO - carbon monoxide, computer program, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, fire weather, firefighting personnel, GPS - global positioning system, wildfires, wind
The Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator is a model that simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behavior over time, in the context of stand development and management. Existing models are used to represent forest stand development (the Forest…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel dynamics, silviculture, stand dynamics, fuel treatment, potential fire behavior, FFE-FVS - Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator, Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, biomass, Agropyron spp., catastrophic fires, climatology, combustion, computer program, coniferous forests, crown fires, crown scorch, crowns, dead fuels, decay, decomposition, diameter classes, distribution, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), flame length, fire intensity, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, Larix occidentalis, leaves, litter, live fuels, logging, moisture, mortality, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, population density, population ecology, Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, rate of spread, salvage, regeneration, scorch, shrubs, site treatments, size classes, sloping terrain, snags, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, Symphoricarpos spp., temperature, thinning, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, vegetation surveys, watershed management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels
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…
Person:
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
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
The document describes the Smoke Impact Spreadsheet (SIS) model, which is a screening-level modeling system for calculating PM2.5 emissions and airborne concentrations downwind of natural or managed wildland fires.
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: CONSUME, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, CALPUFF, PM2.5 emissions, PM2.5 airborne concentrations
Plumes from wildfires and prescribed fires represent a critical aspect of smoke management and air quality assessment, and as such it is important to understand the structure and dynamics of these plumes, both with respect to a basic understanding of the phenomena and with…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire plumes, climatology, ecology, evolution, fire intensity, fire management, heat, heat effects, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, surface fires, vortices, wind
Forest and agricultural burning release chemical compounds and particulate matter into the atmosphere. Although most of this material contributes to visibility reductions through haze and provides chemical constituents available for reactions with other atmospheric pollutants,…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: drift smoke, ground fog, smoke behavior
The increasing incidence, extent and severity of uncontrolled burning globally, together with its many adverse consequences, has brought fire into the international environmental policy arena, with growing calls for international action leading to greater control of burning,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, age classes, air quality, Asia, Australia, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, crown fires, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, land use, light, Mongolia, peatlands, pollutionpublic information, rainforests, rate of spread, remote sensing, Russia, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, South America, succession, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires