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Electric field measurements, combined with lightning location data, demonstrate that the plume clouds from large fires can be charged and can generate lightning discharges. The results of measurements made on a prescribed burn show that the charge distribution is a positive…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, distribution, fire management, forest management, lightning, lightning effects, logging, Ontario, smoke effects, storms, weather observations

The Doppler lidar of NOAA/ERL's Wave Propagation Laboratory (WPL) observed a prescribed forest fire that was ignited in the township of Battersby, Ontario, Canada, on 12 August 1988. During the first hour of the fire the lidar saw the smoke column rise nearly straight up to a…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, distribution, fire management, light, Ontario, particulates, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, wind

A major problem with weather data in complex terrain is temporal and spatial interpolation. The British Columbia Forest Service, through the services of Atmospheric Dynamics Corporation, has adapted a meso-scale weather model to provide hourly predictions out to 4.5 days for a…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: British Columbia, Canada, rate of spread, smoke management, temperature, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

'Fire came to the rainforest, and Krajcberg began to agonize over the ruin. 'There was such smoke that I never saw the natural sun,' he recalled in a recent interview with The New York Times. 'I denounced the burning, but I didn't have any impact. At that time, burning the…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Effects, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aesthetics, Brazil, disturbance, fire management, general interest, habitat conversion, human caused fires, New York, photography, rainforests, South America, trees

The Restionaceae is one of the three major families defining fynbos, the characteristic vegetation type of the Cape Floristic Region. Periodic fires with a frequency of 5 to 40 years are a natural phenomenon in fynbos vegetation. Fire-stimulated seed germination has been…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asteraceae, Ericaceae, fire management, fynbos, germination, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, Restionaceae, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, South Africa, temperature

Plant-derived smoke and aqueous extracts of smoke stimulate germination of dormant seed of the important fire-climax grass Themeda triandra (redgrass) . The positive germination response to smoke increased as the state of seed imbibition increased. Furthermore, aqueous smoke…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: ash, cellulose, fire management, fynbos, germination, grasses, leaves, range management, savannas, seed germination, smoke effects, South Africa, temperature, Themeda, Themeda triandra

Nicotiana attenuata is a native tobacco that is commonly found usually one growing season after fires in the blackbrush, sagebrush and pinyon-juniper forests of the Great Basin desert of North America. This plant also occurs in isolated dry washes and roadsides for many…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: allelopathy, annual plants, Coleogyne ramosissima, deserts, fire management, germination, Lycium, Nicotiana attenuata, nutrients, post fire recovery, Purshia tridentata, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, shrubs, soil nutrients, soils, Utah, wood, Yucca baccata

Some postfire annuals with dormant seeds use heat or chemical cues from charred wood to synchronize their gemmination with the postfire environment. We report that wood smoke and polar extracts of wood smoke, but not the ash of burned wood, contain potent cue(s) that stimulate…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: allelopathy, annual plants, ash, cellulose, combustion, deserts, evolution, fire management, germination, heat, leaves, Nicotiana, Nicotiana attenuata, plant communities, post fire recovery, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, Utah, water, wood

PLUMP is a general -purpose, one-dimensional plume rise model for wildfire and prescribed fire planning. It calculates the characteristics of fire plu8mes, including vertical velocity, water content, excess temperature, rain, and ice. The model can also be used to determine the…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, lightning, smoke behavior, smoke management, temperature, water, wildfires

The objective of this study was to improve a smoke emissions model that is currently being used to help reduce pollution impacts from prescribed burning of hmber harvest residues. Smoke emissions from these types of burns have been characterized with in situ, real time sampling…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, biomass, broadcast burning, combustion, coniferous forests, decay, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, logging, moisture, Oregon, pine forests, pollution, sampling, site treatments, smoke management, Washington

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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, cover type, crown fires, diseases, duff, erosion, field experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, flame length, forest management, fuel accumulation, Georgia, grasses, hydrology, leaves, mineral soils, pH, Pinus brutia, Pinus contorta, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus kelloggii, Quercus wislizeni, Sequoia sempervirens, site treatments, smoke effects, soil moisture, state forests, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, water repellent soils, watersheds, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife habitat management, infliltration, hydrophobicity, forest floor consumption, fireline intensity

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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: combustion, computer programs, cover type, duff, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Georgia, heat, hydrology, mineral soils, mortality, overstory, Pinus ponderosa, regeneration, scorch, soil moisture, soil temperature, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, succession, trees, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, woody fuels, fuel consumption, tree mortality, computer model, national geographic zones, USER NETWORK

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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, catastrophic fires, China, coniferous forests, cutting, dead fuels, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire injuries (humans), fire protection, fire size, Georgia, human caused fires, ignition, lightning caused fires, logging, mortality, radiation, rate of spread, remote sensing, smoke behavior, temperature, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, International
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, boreal forests, British Columbia, Canada, computer programs, coniferous forests, decay, decomposition, diameter classes, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, Georgia, Idaho, logging, Palmaceae, Picea glauca, Pseudotsuga menziesii, slash, statistical analysis, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, woody fuels, woody fuel consumption, model testing, CONSUME model, interior cedar-hemlock forests

Wind direction is one of the most critical weather parameters with respect to fire and smoke management. The observed and forecast data analyzed for this study (1985-1991 at Macon, GA) indicate that current smoke management guidelines do not allow sufficient margin for…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backfires, fire management, geography, Georgia, light, smoke management, wind, wind, wind direction, forecasting, smoke management

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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, Australia, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, digital data collection, distribution, droughts, energy, eucalyptus, fire control, fire frequency, fire scar analysis, fuel types, Georgia, grasslands, greenhouse gases, land management, mosaic, Northern Territory of Australia, nutrients, particulates, plant growth, precipitation, radiation, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, statistical analysis, understory vegetation, biomass burning, NOAA-AVHRR (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer), fire mosaic, fire scar, Northern Territory of Australia, gaseous emissions, anthropogenic effects

Each year highway accidents occur at locations where smoke or a combination of smoke and fog is implicated as a contributor to poor visibility. A numerical model to simulate near ground smoke movement at night over complex interlocking valley-ridge systems typical of the…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, digital data collection, drainage, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, forest management, Georgia, particulates, Piedmont, roads, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, streams, temperature, topography, wind, highway accidents, smoke management, fog, PREGNANT BUBBLES, SNAF - slow nocturnal air flow, wind model

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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: bacteria, bark, carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, deciduous forests, fire growth, fire retardants, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel arrangement, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fungi, Georgia, heat, ignition, leaves, litter, logging, microorganisms, moisture, national forests, needles, Oregon, organic matter, private lands, public information, remote sensing, slash, soil moisture, soil organic matter, spontaneous combustion, temperature, wood, woody fuels, spontaneous ignition, forest residue, wood chips, slash, CHIP PILE, SAWDUST

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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, broadcast burning, clearcutting, coniferous forests, digital data collection, fire management, Georgia, hardwood forests, land use, low intensity burns, sampling, slash and burn, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Washington, EPM (Smoke Emissions Production Model), fuel consumption, smoke dispersion

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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Fire Ecology, Weather, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, deciduous forests, digital data collection, fire danger rating, fire management, Formicidae, fuel moisture, Georgia, grazing, land management, leaves, livestock, moisture, Oklahoma, Praomys natalensis, precipitation, private lands, radiation, rangelands, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, soil temperature, statistical analysis, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife habitat management, wind, weather station, fire danger, computer communications, NFDRS - National Fire Danger Rating System, OLETS - Oklahoma Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, high plains

Fire has played a major role in determining the distribution of plants across the Coastal Plain of the southeastern U.S. The extent of fire dependent ecosystems such as pond pine/high pocosin forest type has been reduced and wildland fire fuel loads have increased as a result of…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, biomass, blowups, catastrophic fires, coastal plain, cover type conversion, dead fuels, distribution, FIA, fire control, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire intensity, flame length, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel models, ground fires, health factors, land management, liability, live fuels, low intensity burns, Oregon, organic soils, pine forests, Pinus serotina, pocosins, population density, population ecology, rate of spread, smoke behavior, soil moisture, soil organic matter, soils, surface fuels, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildland fuels, ladder fuels

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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, ecosystem dynamics, energy, evapotranspiration, fuel accumulation, gases, leaves, Manitoba, Oregon, overstory, Picea mariana, post fire recovery, precipitation, radiation, regeneration, species diversity (plants), succession, understory vegetation, NEE - net ecosystem exchange

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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: bark, birds, coniferous forests, Dendroctonus, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, fuel loading, fuel moisture, herbaceous vegetation, insects, moisture, mortality, multiple resource management, national parks, Oregon, overstory, population density, season of fire, Sequoia, shrubs, smoke management, surface fires, thinning, understory vegetation, FFS - Fire and Fire Surrogate Study

From the text (p.7-8) ... 'Lightning-ignited wildfires (lightning-fires) in the Green Swamp Wilderness Preserve (GSWP), Florida, were characterized and modeled in relation to acreage burned and time since last burn (Fire Interval) as a function of weather, prescribed burn…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: artificial regeneration, burning intervals, central Florida, combustion, crown scorch, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, flowering, forest management, fuel moisture, GIS, herbaceous vegetation, histories, human caused fires, humidity, ignition, land management, landscape ecology, lightning, lightning caused fires, marshes, north Florida, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, prairies, precipitation, prescribed fires (chance ignition), recreation related fires, season of fire, statistical analysis, suppression, swamps, temperature, watershed management, wetlands, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife refuges

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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Asia, croplands, cutting, deforestation, ENSO, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, forest products, GIS, grasslands, human caused fires, incendiary fires, Indonesia, land use, land use planning, landscape ecology, logging, mineral soils, mosaic, plantations, remote sensing, roads, shrublands, site treatments, slash, Sumatra, tropical forests, wildfires, LAND PREPARATION, TRANSMIGRATION SETTLEMENTS