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During early July 2002, wildfires burned ∼1 × 106 ha of forest in Quebec, Canada. The resultant smoke plume was seen in satellite images blanketing the U.S. east coast. Concurrently, extremely high CO mixing ratios were observed at the Atmospheric Investigation, Regional…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: Quebec, air pollution, CO - carbon monoxide, AIRMAP, aerosol
Fires in croplands, plantations, and rangelands contribute significantly to fire emissions in the United States, yet are often overshadowed by wildland fires in efforts to develop inventories or estimate responses to climate change. Here we quantified decadal trends, interannual…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: cropland fires, fire regimes, wildfires, air quality, climate change, plantations, remote sensing, fire management, range management, croplands, rangelands, agriculture, air quality, carbon cycle, wildfire, aerosols
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, Asia, biomass, Canada, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, Central America, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, fire frequency, fire management, human caused fires, Italy, land use, CH4 - methane, natural areas management, nutrient cycling, Portugal, remote sensing, Russia, season of fire, statistical analysis, United Kingdom, vegetation surveys, wildfires
The Nature Conservancy, World Wide Fund for Nature and IUCN have pledged to work together and with partners to address the causes and ecological and social consequences of altered fire regimes across the world. The partners sponsored an experts workshop in May 2004 where we…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, Asia, Australia, biomass, boreal forests, Bromus tectorum, catastrophic fires, conservation, croplands, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire sensitive plants, fire size, fire suppression, forbs, forest types, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel management, Ghana, climate change, grasses, grasslands, grazing, greenhouse gases, habitat conversion, habitat suitability, habitat types, health factors, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, incendiary fires, invasive species, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, moisture, post fire recovery, rural communities, savannas, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), temperature, thinning, tropical forests, wildfires, altered fire regimes, fire-dependent ecosystems, LANDFIRE, anthropogenic effects, PRIORITY ECOREGIONS
Eglin Air Force Base (Eglin) supports 309 active clusters, making it the fourth largest red-cockaded woodpecker population. During a 7-year period from 1994 to 2001, Eglin's red-cockaded woodpecker population increased 42%, making Eglin the fastest-growing large population of…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, barrier islands, biogeography, burning intervals, cavity nesting birds, cavity trees, chemistry, clearcutting, community ecology, conservation, deforestation, diameter classes, distribution, droughts, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, Etheostoma okaloosae, fine fuels, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fishes, flatwoods, Florida, forage, forbs, forest management, forest products, fuel loading, ground cover, habitat conversion, habitat suitability, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, herbicides, histories, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, insects, land management, lightning caused fires, logging, longleaf pine, military lands, national forests, natural areas management, nongame birds, old growth forests, overstory, photography, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, population density, population ecology, private lands, Quercus, Quercus laevis, reforestation, regeneration, riparian habitats, roads, roots, sandhills, season of fire, seedlings, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, suppression, threatened and endangered species (animals), translocation, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, xeric soils, adaptive management, ecosystem management, Eglin Air Force Base, military, population trend, red-cockaded woodpecker
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: burning intervals, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, forest products, fragmentation, fuel loading, fuel management, Healthy Forests Initiative, human caused fires, land use, landscape ecology, liability, prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, US Forest Service, vegetation surveys, wildfires
Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, has a landscape fire management target to maintain or restore 50% of the long-term average fire cycle. Because the park experiences frequent lightning fires it has adopted a strategy to use both management-ignited prescribed burns and…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, British Columbia, Canada, droughts, fire case histories, fire control, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel loading, fuel moisture, landscape ecology, lightning, lightning caused fires, mountains, national parks, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, prescribed fires (chance ignition), rate of spread, roads, season of fire, sloping terrain, smoke management, subalpine forests, wilderness fire management, British Columbia, fire management, fire restoration, Kootenay National Park, lightning fire, national parks
From the text ... 'Knowing the current status of the historical fire regimes is critical for land management planning. ...Over the past century, forested area with low-severity fire potential has declined by more than 80 percent. ...During the presettlement era, stands in the…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, age classes, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, fire case histories, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire scar analysis, forest management, land management, Montana, montane forests, mortality, mosaic, Native Americans, Oregon, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, post fire recovery, presettlement fires, Pseudotsuga menziesii, statistical analysis, subalpine forests, surface fires, Thuja plicata, trees, Tsuga heterophylla, understory vegetation, Utah, vegetation surveys, Washington, wildfires, Wyoming
From the text ... 'Wildfires have had a high impact on Botswana's environment, destroying both forest and rangeland resources. ...Prescribed burning is practiced in State forest reserves, national parks, and game reserves to reduce highly flammable fine fuels on the forest floor…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, arid regions, Baikiaea, Botswana, conservation, crown fires, deserts, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fine fuels, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire size, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, flammability, fuel loading, grasses, ground fires, heat, human caused fires, humidity, hunting, landscape ecology, leaves, litter, logging, mortality, national parks, precipitation, public information, riparian habitats, runoff, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, soil erosion, soil nutrients, state forests, surface fires, temperature, topography, Washington, water, wildfires, wind
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Acer, air quality, air temperature, Arizona, bark, Betula, blowups, bogs, Canada, catastrophic fires, Colorado, combustion, coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, crown scorch, crowns, Cupressaceae, dead fuels, deciduous forests, droughts, duff, education, energy, evergreens, Fagus grandifolia, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire growth, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire whirls, firebrands, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, flammability, forage, forest fragmentation, forest products, Fraxinus, fuel appraisal, fuel management, gases, heat, human caused fires, humidity, ignition, Illinois, leaves, lightning caused fires, logging, Maine, Michigan, mineral soils, Minnesota, mortality, mosaic, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New England, old growth forests, Ontario, overstory, Picea, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, precipitation, presettlement fires, public information, Quercus, radiation, rate of spread, rivers, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, snags, soils, spontaneous combustion, spot fires, stand characteristics, storms, surface fires, surface fuels, temperature, topography, Ulmus, understory vegetation, vortices, Washington, water, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wisconsin, wood, woody fuels
Serotiny is a mechanism for storing propagules on plants, so that seed dispersal can be maximised after the death of aerial parts of plants or to take advantage of conditions beneficial to establishment. In fire-prone vegetation, regeneration of new plants after fire is mostly…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat effects, smoke effects, wildfires, flowering, plant physiology, regeneration, seed dispersal, seed germination, serotiny, vegetation surveys, Conospermum, shrubs, western Australia, Australia, fire management, range management, shrublands, inflorescence-infructescence structure, Proteaceae, seed protection, seed storage
Changes in cloud cover and atmospheric aerosol loading strongly affect the diffuse proportion of solar radiation (Rd/Rg). It has been reported that plant photosynthesis is more efficient under diffuse light conditions, but diffuse radiation (Rd) regimes in tropical peatland…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, droughts, ENSO, photosynthesis, radiation, statistical analysis, Indonesia, Asia, fire management, peatlands, tropical regions, aerosol, clearness index, El Nino drought, peat fire
Smoke haze, caused by vegetation and peat fires in Southeast Asia, is of major concern because of its adverse impact on regional air quality. We apply two different methods (a chemical transport model and a Lagrangian atmospheric transport model) to identify the locations of…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: ground fires, peat fires, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, pollution, vegetation surveys, Singapore, Sumatra, Asia, fire management, smoke management, air quality, particulate matter, vegetation fires, aerosol, Southeast Asia, air pollution, smoke transport
Forest fires are a significant source of air pollution in Asia. In this study, we integrate satellite remote sensing data and ground-based measurements to infer fire-air pollution relationships in selected regions of Vietnam. We first characterized the active fires and burnt…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, vegetation surveys, Vietnam, Asia, fire management, forest management, active fires, biomass burning, atmospheric variables, particulate matter concentration, Vietnam
The past decade marked record high air pollution episodes in Indonesia. In this study, we specifically focus on vegetation fires in Palangkaraya located near a Mega Rice Project area in Indonesia. We analyzed various gaseous air pollution data such as particulate matter (PM10),…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, wildfires, air quality, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, Indonesia, Asia, fire management, forest management, haze, peat fire, air pollutants, photochemical smog, PM10, MODIS
A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. The United Nation International Strategy for Disaster Reduction estimates that between 3 and 4 million km2 are affected by wildfire annually, with 18,000…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire size, wildfires, air quality, health factors, remote sensing, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Europe, fire management, forest management, Mediterranean habitats, wildfires, exposure, assessment, wildfire emissions, health effects, inventory, Mediterranean region, air pollutants
Millennia of human land-use have resulted in the widespread occurrence of what have been coined 'domesticated ecosystems'. The anthropogenic imprints on diversity, composition, structure and functioning of such systems are well documented. However, evolutionary consequences of…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire regimes, smoke effects, wildfires, germination, Calluna vulgaris, heather, Norway, Europe, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, range management, heathlands, smoke-induced germination, coastal heathland, germination cues, cultural landscape
Post-fire predictions of forest recovery under future climate change and management actions are necessary for forest managers to make decisions about treatments. We applied the Climate-Forest Vegetation Simulator (Climate-FVS), a new version of a widely used forest management…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: fire intensity, post-fire recovery, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, deforestation, national forests, population density, regeneration, sprouting, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Arizona, fire management, forest management, FVS - Forest Vegetation Simulator, simulation, GCMs - general circulation models, post-fire
Management of fire is an important and controversial policy issue. Active fire suppression has led to a backlog of fuels, limited the ecological benefits of fire, and reduced short-term smoke impacts likely delaying these emissions to future generations over a larger spatial…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Planning, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire case histories, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, health factors, mortality, particulates, Sierra Nevada, fire management, forest management, smoke management, smoke impacts, wildland fire, policy, public health, AQI - Air Quality Index
Fire frequency for below historic norms is threatening eastern oak ecosystem integrity. Increasingly, private family forest landowners are interested in using prescribed fire as a tool for maintaining oak dominance and associated wildlife habitat and wildfire protection. The…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire frequency, prescribed fires (escaped), smoke effects, air quality, private lands, Quercus, oak, Illinois, fire management, land management, range management, wildlife habitat management, hardwood forests, rangelands, community forestry, land management, family forest, Quercus
From the text ... 'We carried out a univariate correlation analysis between the number of focus of bushfires and dengue cases in four Brazilian states for the period from 2000 to 2009. These states are responsible for 50% of the total number of focus of bushfires in Brazil in…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, diseases, insects, Brazil, South America, fire management
Biomass burning emits large amounts of aerosol particles globally, influencing human health and climate, but the number and size of the particles is highly variable depending on fuel type, burning and meteorological conditions, and secondary reactions in the atmosphere. Ambient…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): California
Keywords: BBA - biomass burning aerosol, fire size, smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, southern California, fire management, smoke management
Fire emissions associated with tropical land use change and maintenance influence atmospheric composition, air quality, and climate. In this study, we explore the effects of representing fire emissions at daily versus monthly resolution in a global composition-climate model. We…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, remote sensing, Asia, Africa, Amazon, Brazil, South America, fire management, forest management, tropical forests, tropical regions, atmospheric modeling, air quality
Many external effects of land use change are based on modifications of lateral flows of soil, water, air, fire or organisms. Lateral flows can be intercepted by filters and thus the severity and spatial range of external effects of land use change is under the influence of…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, disturbance, floods, greenhouse gases, humidity, nutrients, pesticides, soils, species diversity (plants), weeds, wind, fire management, land use, soil management, watershed management, watersheds, biodiversity, filters, lateral flows, scale effects, watershed functions
Air quality forecasts generated with chemical transport models can provide valuable information about the potential impacts of fires on pollutant levels. However, significant uncertainties are associated with fire-related emission estimates as well as their distribution on…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, particulates, Georgia, fire management, smoke management, urban habitats, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, air quality, PM2.5, sensitivity analysis