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From the text ... 'This article updates the uses of the fire severity index called the Haines Index (HI). We discuss the original intended use of HI, its current operational use, some ways that users have modified it, and different aspects of HI that researchers are examining to…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: convection, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, flame length, fuel moisture, ignition, rate of spread, smoke behavior, temperature, Washington, wildfires, wind
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, Amazon, biomass, distribution, fire case histories, Indonesia, radiation, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forests, tropical regions, wildfires, Indonesian forest fire, unsupervised classification, multi spectrum classification, aerosol optical thickness
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire equipment, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, general interest, landscape ecology, liability, logging, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, private lands, public information, roads, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
This paper describes the Oklahoma Fire Danger Model, an operational fire danger rating system for the state of Oklahoma (USA) developed through joint efforts of Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the Fire Sciences Laboratory of the USDA Forest Service in…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: adaptation, fire danger rating, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, land management, live fuels, moisture, Montana, Oklahoma, pine hardwood forests, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'On the Dude Fire Staff Ride tomorrow, we will retrace the steps of people who were under pressure. Some of those people handled pressure well. Some didn't. For a richer understanding of the Dude Fire, we should focus on what happens when people are overcome by…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: Arizona, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, hardwood forests, pine forests, rate of spread, smoke effects, Washington, wildfires
From the text...''Values at stake' is the principle upon which fire safety is based. In the U.S., the highest values at stake are human life and private property, in that order. In wildfire suppression once the values of human life and private property are secure, generally the…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: education, fire damage protection, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flammability, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, general interest, Georgia, hardwood forests, Louisiana, marshlands, pine forests, plantations, pollution, public information, smoke management, streams, suppression, threatened and endangered species, water, water quality, wildfires
The authors present a finite-difference numerical model of heat flow within a horizontal section of a tree stem. Processes included in the model are solar radiative heating, infrared emission and absorption, convective heat exchange between tree surface and the atmosphere, and…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: stem heating, finite-difference numerical model , solar radiative heating, tree stem heat flow
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server. The Internet server allows maps of ventilation…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: database, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, fire weather data, mixing height, ventilation index, wind speed
We have simulated the dynamical evolution of the plume from a prescribed biomass fire, using the active tracer high-resolution atmospheric model (ATHAM). Initialization parameters were set to reflect the conditions during the fire. The model results are compared with airborne…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: biomass burning, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, SCAR-C Smoke, Cloud, and Radiation-C experiment, aerosol transport, aerosol optical properties
The Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science (ESFS) synthesizes volumes of scientific knowledge about fire science in the southern United States. ESFS delivers grounded information to field practitioners and the general public with viewer-navigated text, photos, graphics, plus a…
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Year: 2002
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bibliography, ESFS - Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science
Direct measurements of CO2 and water vapour of regenerating forests after fire events (secondary succession stages) are needed to determine the role of such disturbances in the biome carbon and water cycles functioning. An estimation of the extension of burnt areas is also…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Abies spp., regeneration, water, boreal ecosystem, carbon exchange, nutrient uptake, Siberia, Betula, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, energy, forest management, heat, Picea, Pinus, Populus, remote sensing, Sorbus spp., Russia, succession, taiga, wildfires
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, coniferous forests, conifers, deciduous forests, disturbance, fire growth, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firebreaks, forest management, fuel accumulation, gases, health factors, human caused fires, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, CH4 - methane, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, Kyoto Protocol, fire suppression and biodiversity
From the Conclusion (p.294-295) ... 'The average rate and intensity of forest burning and deforestation can be expected to increase as previously burned forest area expands. A positive feedback exists between forest fires, future fire susceptibility, fuel loading, and fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Amazon, biomass, Brazil, C - carbon, crown scorch, deforestation, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, flame length, fuel loading, land use, landscape ecology, litter, logging, mortality, overstory, rate of spread, remote sensing, scrub, South America, tropical forests
Tropical peatlands are one of the largest near-surface reserves of terrestrial organic carbon, and hence their stability has important implications for climate change. In their natural state, lowland tropical peatlands support a luxuriant growth or peat swamp forest overlying…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, Borneo, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, clearcutting, combustion, distribution, drainage, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire injuries (plants), GIS - geographic information system, GPS - global positioning system, grasslands, Indonesia, Kalimantan, land use, landscape ecology, logging, mosaic, peat, peatlands, post fire recovery, remote sensing, shrublands, Southeast Asia, swamps, tropical forests, wildfires
Shallow soil cores from 56 localities along the crest of the Colorado Front Range were processed by water flotation and wet sieving, then examined for wood charcoal and charred conifer-needle fragments. Charred particles were largest and most numerous in samples from the…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies spp., age classes, archaeological sites, C - carbon, char, charcoal, Colorado, conifers, crown fires, ecotones, elevation, forest management, litter, montane forests, mosaic, needles, overstory, particulates, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus flexilis, Populus tremuloides, remote sensing, sampling, soils, subalpine forests, surface fires, tundra, vegetation surveys, water, wildfires, wind, wood
The Russian boreal forest contains approximately 25% of the global terrestrial biomass, and even a higher percentage of the carbon stored in litter and soils. Fire burns large areas annually, much of it in low-severity surface fires - but data on fire area and impacts or extent…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, boreal forest, biomass, fire regimes, fire severity, area burned, carbon emissions, carbon storage, climate change, Siberia, broadcast burning, Canada, C - carbon, chemistry, cover, crown fires, dead fuels, disturbance, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, forest management, land use, litter, remote sensing, Russia, soils, surface fires, vegetation surveys, wildfires
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, biomass, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, combustion, competition, coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, decay, duff, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire whirls, foliage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, general interest, Great Plains, ground fires, heat, heat effects, human caused fires, Idaho, ignition, insects, lightning caused fires, litter, Montana, mortality, mosaic, overstory, O - oxygen, Picea engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, plant growth, prairies, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus, resprouting, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, slash, stand characteristics, surface fires, topography, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, woody fuels