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From the text ... 'The Haines Index is the first attempt to construct a formal fire-weather index based upon features of the lower atmosphere.Does it work?... This index uses the environmental lapse rate (temperature difference) within a layer of air coupled with its moisture…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Colorado, crown fires, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, humidity, Idaho, lightning caused fires, moisture, Montana, national forests, Oregon, rate of spread, rural communities, smoke behavior, spot fires, statistical analysis, temperature, topography, Washington, water, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, 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: agriculture, air quality, coniferous forests, conservation, diseases, ecosystem dynamics, education, FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, forest products, grazing, histories, invasive species, land management, national forests, native species (plants), natural resource legislation, pine forests, private lands, public information, range management, rangelands, recreation, roads, salvage, Smokey Bear program, soil erosion, state forests, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), US Forest Service, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, watershed management, weeds, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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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): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion chambers, dead fuels, ecosystem dynamics, fuel types, gases, grasses, live fuels, Lupinus spp., Mexico, Muhlenbergia, pine forests, Pinus hartwegii, Senecio spp., smoke effects, statistical analysis, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, 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
The Southern High-Resolution Modeling Consortium (SHRMC) is one of five regional Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS) consortia established as part of the National Fire Plan. FCAMMS involves research and development activities collaborating…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, cover, education, fire control, fire danger rating, fire management, firefighting personnel, humidity, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, National Fire Plan, Ohio, Piedmont, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, Texas, US Forest Service, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires, 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,…
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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
Case study analyses of the BlueSky smoke modeling framework help identify the input values or modeling components that require improvement. BlueSky is a smoke forecasting system that combines burn information with models of consumption, emissions, meteorology, and dispersion to…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Colorado, computer programs, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lightning caused fires, Montana, mountains, photography, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, topography, weather observations, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
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
PB-Piedmont, a time-dependent numerical model to simulate and predict smoke movement near the ground at night over terrain characteristic of the Piedmont of the Southeastern United States is undergoing beta testing. During the 2003 winter burn season, the Fish and Wildlife…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, elevation, fire management, geography, GPS - global positioning system, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, Piedmont, roads, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, US Forest Service, weather observations, wildlife, wind
Smoke from wildland fires releases dramatic amounts of PM, CO, SO2, NOx, VOC and other chemical species. Meanwhile, high level of O3 can build up as a result of the emissions. These air pollutants can cause serious consequence to regional and local air quality by reducing…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Eastern, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, chemical elements, computer programs, ecosystem dynamics, environmental impact analysis, fire intensity, fire management, fuel loading, geography, health factors, histories, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, moisture, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soil moisture, statistical analysis, temperature, wilderness fire management, wildfires
This paper presents preliminary results of an effort to assess impacts caused by forest fires on regional air quality and visibility. Regional air quality is the result of many, many different sources of air pollution being transported, dispersed, chemically transformed, wet and…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, chemistry, community ecology, computer programs, fire danger rating, fire management, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, pollution, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, US Forest Service, wildfires
The objective of this study is to improve the ability to model the air quality impacts of biomass burning on the surrounding environment. The focus is on prescribed burning emissions from a military reservation, Fort Benning in Georgia, and their impact on local and regional air…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: adaptation, air quality, biomass, community ecology, computer programs, ecosystem dynamics, environmental impact analysis, fire danger rating, fire management, Georgia, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, landscape ecology, military lands, ozone, remote sensing, smoke management, statistical analysis
This talk describes development of a physics-based mathematical and computational model to predict fire spread among structures and natural fuels (trees, shrubs and ground litter). This tool will be used to understand how fires spread in a community where both structures and…
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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 Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Planning, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, combustion, computer networks, computer programs, distribution, elevation, fine fuels, fire growth, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, firefighting personnel, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, herbaceous vegetation, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, leaves, litter, needles, overstory, physics, plant physiology, rate of spread, shrubs, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, topography, trees, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind
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
The Florida Fire Management Information System (FMIS) is a tightly integrated set of applications that handle the data input, processing and reporting needs of work undertaken by the Florida Division of Forestry (DOF), including: 1) open burning authorizations; 2) responding to…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: computer networks, computer programs, fire danger rating, fire management, firefighting personnel, Florida, GIS, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, remote sensing, roads, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, suppression, weather observations, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Fire spread, the outcome of complex interactions between fire, fuels, terrain, and weather, is difficult to model mathematically. Alternatively, it is possible to recast the problem as a set of simple rules. These rules can be framed as simple computer programs to model the…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: combustion, computer programs, fire growth, fire management, firebreaks, flank fires, headfires, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Piedmont, rate of spread, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, topography
The combustion of woody materials releases significant amounts of moisture into the atmosphere. The energy required to evaporate this moisture is accounted for in the computation of fire energy release, as a loss from overall combustion energy. The moisture and energy are not…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: blowups, combustion, computer programs, energy, evapotranspiration, fire case histories, fire management, fuel moisture, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, moisture, statistical analysis, transpiration, wind, woody fuels, woody plants
A compressible, non-hydrostatic model is used to investigate atmospheric circulations induced by annular surface heat sources in a vertically sheared crossflow. Annular heat sources are used to approximate the influence of a wildland fire on the atmospheric flow. A series of…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, heat, heat effects, hydrology, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, smoke behavior, vortices, wildfires
This study focuses on evaluating two stability indices commonly used in fire weather with regard to their predictive ability for the potential for large wildfires. The Haines Index is a common component in fire weather forecasts and provides an indication of the potential for…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, computer programs, droughts, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, Florida, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wilderness fire management, wildfires
The effects of vertically sheared winds on the behavior of wildland fires are examined via simulations of a coupled atmosphere-fire model. Specifically, the HIGRAD/FIRETEC model developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is employed to explore the dependence of fire…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: computer programs, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Los Alamos, New Mexico, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, vortices, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
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
The Hazard Mapping System (HMS) is a multiplatform remote sensing approach to detecting fires and smoke over the US and adjacent areas of Canada and Mexico. This system is an integral part of the Satellite Services Division's near realtime hazards detection and mitigation…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, computer programs, fire control, fire management, GIS, heat, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land use, Mexico, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, US Forest Service, weather observations, web page, wildfires
Modeling capabilities of the FARSITE fire area simulator have been expanded to include post-frontal combustion and smoke production. FARSITE previously simulated only fire growth, with the focus on the fire perimeter. The BURNUP model was adapted to account for smoldering and…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, combustion, computer programs, dead fuels, fire growth, fire management, fire size, flammability, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, low intensity burns, moisture, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis
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