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The article is concerned with the experimental study of the crown fire effect on atmospheric transport processes: the formation of induced turbulence in the vicinity of the fire source and the transport of aerosol combustion products in the atmosphere surface layer at low…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: crown fire, aerosols, mass transfer, atmosphere, wildfires, boreal forest, atmospheric processes
The Sub-Saharan African region suffers from a high concentration of pollutants from savannah fires, which adversely affect the environment and human health. This study aims to predict the ground-level concentrations (GLC) of pollutants emitted during savannah fires and evaluate…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Guinea, Guinea savanna, savannah, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, guidelines, ground-level concentrations, AERMOD - American Meteorological Society/United States Environmental Protection Agency Regulatory Model, sub-Saharan Africa
Globally, wildfires are becoming more frequent and destructive, generating a significant amount of smoke that can transport thousands of miles. Therefore, improving air pollution forecasts from wildfires is essential and informing citizens of more frequent, accurate, and…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildfire, air pollution, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, spatiotemporal prediction, sparse self-attention, transformer neural network, ST-Transformer
Join project staff and members of the committee for a public release webinar about the new report, The Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface on Tuesday, September 20th from 3:00PM to 4:00PM EDT. The committee will share information about their findings and…
Person: Allen, Lowry, Adetona, Holder, Rosario-Ortiz, Turpin
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: public health, wildfires, fire chemistry, communities at risk, air quality, water quality
Recent extreme wildfire events (EWE) in Australia, the United States of America (USA), Greece and Portugal highlighted the seriousness of wildfire smoke impacts on society. Nowadays, about 2000 premature deaths occur annually in the USA due to chronic wildfire smoke exposure,…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: EWE - extreme wildfire event, smoke dispersion, Portugal, public health, smoke exposure, air quality, air pollution
From September 2019 to February 2020 fires destroyed dwellings, towns and killed farm animals and wildlife in much of eastern Australia. While the threat and experiences of fire differed, smoke became a quotidian experience for millions of people not in direct danger from flames…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: urban political ecology, wildfire, health, climate change, air quality, eastern Australia
We undertake a nationwide US study to estimate how mega-fires (defined as wildfires >100,000 acres in size) affect short-term infant health outcomes in communities located within the flame zone. This is the first study to look exclusively at mega-fires, which have unique…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: megafires, mega-fires, indirect effects, health impacts, infant health, flame zone
This webinar is part of the ABoVE Northwest Territories-focus webinar series.
Person: Billmire, Vander Bilt
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: NWT - Northwest Territories, ABoVE - NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, carbon storage, boreal peatlands, extreme drought, wildfire, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, CanFIRE
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were focused on each of the…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: climate change, fire-adapted communities, fireshed, forest health, fuel treatment, ignition, land management, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), resilience, wildfires, Wildfire Crisis Strategy, trusted communicators, shared stewardship, equity, ITEK - Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge
The wildfire season in the Western United States (U.S.) was anomalously large in 2020, with a majority of burned area due to lightning ignitions resulting in overall fire emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) in the Western region almost 3 times the 2001–2019 average. We used the…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: wildfire, O3 - ozone, CO - carbon monoxide, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, CAM-chem
Estimating the impact on air quality of the Portuguese 2017 forest fires with the new APIFLAME model
The extreme wildfires events recently registered in different parts of the world highlighted again the importance of wildfire smoke’s impact on the society and the economy. In Portugal, during the 2017 October wildland fires, several air quality monitoring stations from the…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Portugal, smoke dispersion
Although metal and metalloid concentrations in wildfire ashes have been documented, the nature and concentrations of incidental nanomaterials (INMs) in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fire ashes have received considerably less attention. In this study, the total metal and…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: incidental nanomaterials, ash, fire, North Complex Fire, LNU Lightning Complex Fire, metalloids, metals
Smoke Tools Version 4.1.0 - How to Use VSMOKE and VSMOKE-GIS, and Produce Input Files for PC HYSPLIT
A guide on how to install and use several desktop software packages to model smoke from wildland fire.
This guide references a larger series of lessons on each model available for download on https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wC4RlOQjIlIN-_4o0US74fRQqw4OkCD4
Person:
Year: 2022
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, National
Keywords: emissions and smoke, modeling, Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT), FEPS - Fire Emissions Production Simulator, VSMOKE, FFT - Fuel and Fire Tools, visibility impairment
Wildfire emissions are a key contributor of carbonaceous aerosols and trace gases to the atmosphere. Induced by buoyant lifting, smoke plumes can be injected into the free troposphere and lower stratosphere, which by consequence significantly affects the magnitude and distance…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: biomass burning, inverse modeling, airborne lidar, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, plume rise, WRF-Chem
Fire location and burning area are essential parameters for estimating fire emissions. However, ground-based fire data (such as fire perimeters from incident reports) are often not available with the timeliness required for real-time forecasting. Fire detection products derived…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: wildfires, satellite data, burned area, estimation model, fire detections, hot spots, fire detection
This study analyzed the characteristics of changes in O3 concentration in a plume induced by a wildfire in Andong, South Korea, from 24 to 26 April 2020, using the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Fire INventory from National Center for Atmospheric Research (FINN…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: South Korea, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, biomass burning, wildfire, O3 - ozone, chemistry, process analysis, FINN - Fire Inventory of NCAR
Wildfires in America are becoming larger, more frequent, and more destructive, driven by climate change and existing land management practices. Many of these fires occur at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), areas where development and wildland areas overlap and which are…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
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The radiative forcing (RF) of volcanic sulfate is well quantified. However, the RF of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) smoke with absorbing carbonaceous aerosols has not been considered in climate assessment reports. With the Community Earth System Model (CESM), we studied two record-…
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Year: 2022
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: pyroCb, effective radiative forcing, wildfire, stratosphere, fast adjustments, Community Earth System Model
Climate change impacts and rapid development in the wildland-urban interface are increasing population exposure and vulnerability to the harmful effects of wildfire and wildfire smoke. The direct and indirect effects of these hazards may impact future mobility decisions among…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: climate migration, risk perception, personal experience, wildfire, threat appraisal, migration intentions, mitigation
Fire and smoke object detection is of great significance due to the extreme destructive power of fire disasters. Most of the existing methods, whether traditional computer vision-based models with sensors or deep learning-based models have circumscribed application scenes with…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire detection, smoke detection, dataset, object detection, DFS - Dataset for Fire and Smoke detection, deep learning
Forests, though very critical for life on Earth, are threatened by various factors and the frequently occurring forest fires are one of the significant causes. Forest fires drastically contribute to climate change on both regional and global scales. Forest fires-of both natural…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: forest fire, black carbon, Himalayan glaciers, radiative perturbation, WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting, India
We analyze the effects of the diurnal cycle of fire emissions (DCFE) and plume rise on U.S. air quality using the MUSICAv0 (Multi-Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols Version 0) model during the FIREX-AQ (Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air…
Person:
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, plume rise, diurnal cycle, fire, MUSICA, WE-CAN - Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption, and Nitrogen, air quality
Black (EBC) and Brown (BrC) Carbon are ubiquitous constituents of atmospheric particulate matter that affect people’s health, disrupt ecosystems, and modulate local and global climate. Tracking the local deposition and sources of these aerosol particles is essential to better…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest, International
Keywords: black carbon, brown carbon, troposphere, wildfires, PAX - photoacoustic extinctiometer, HYSPLIT - Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory, planetary boundary layer, HRRR - High Resolution Rapid Refresh
Exposure to biomass smoke has been associated with a wide range of acute and chronic health outcomes. Over the past decades, the frequency and intensity of wildfires has increased in many areas, resulting in longer smoke episodes with higher concentrations of fine particulate…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass smoke, exposure assessment, machine learning, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, CanOSSEM - Canadian Optimized Statistical Smoke Exposure Model, Canada, air pollution
Traffic models can be used to study evacuation scenarios during wildland-urban interface fires and identify the ability of a community to reach a safe place. In those scenarios, wildfire smoke can reduce visibility conditions on the road. This can have serious implications on…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: evacuation traffic modelling, wildfire, driving speed, optical density, evacuation, visibility