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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
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…
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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),…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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
Wildfires produce a significant release of gases and particles affecting climate and air quality. In the Mediterranean region, shrublands significantly contribute to burned areas and may show specific emission profiles. Our objective was to depict and quantify the primary-…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, experimental fires, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, hydrocarbons, particulates, Spain, Europe, fire management, forest management, Mediterranean habitats, shrublands, biomass burning, Mediterranean shrubland, water soluble ions, trace elements, organic compounds, VOCs
Accurate estimates for North American background (NAB) ozone (O3) in surface air over the United States are needed for setting and implementing an attainable national O3 standard. These estimates rely on simulations with atmospheric chemistry-transport models that set North…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, ozone, pollution, fire management, smoke management, surface ozone, background ozone, air pollution, air quality, exceptional events
Land managers rely on prescribed burning and naturally ignited wildfires for ecosystem management, and must balance trade-offs of air quality, carbon storage, and ecosystem health. A current challenge for land managers when using fire for ecosystem management is managing smoke…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire case histories, fire size, fuel loading, fuel models, wildfires, woody fuels, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, ozone, particulates, pollution, Washington, fire management, forest management, land management, smoke management, CONSUME, fire size, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, fuel consumption, smoke emissions, 2006 Tripod Complex Fires
Bushfires occur worldwide, including regions in which winegrapes are grown. Recent research on grape and wine composition has demonstrated that wine made from smoke-affected grapes can be tainted. However, little is known about the impact of fire on grapevines, in particular the…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire injuries (plants), scorch, smoke effects, wildfires, agriculture, fruits, southern Australia, Australia, fire management, smoke management, bushfire, grapevines, guaiacol, semillon, Pinot noir, vine growth
The 2006 Esperanza Fire in Riverside County, California, was simulated with the Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland Fire Environment (CAWFE) model to examine how dynamic interactions of the atmosphere with large-scale fire spread and energy release may affect observed patterns of fire…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire case histories, fire injuries (humans), fire size, fuel loading, fuel models, heat, rate of spread, wildfires, Foehn winds, remote sensing, temperature, wind, southern California, fire management, forest management, airborne remote sensing, coupled atmosphere-fire model, horizontal roll vortices, Santa Ana winds, Esperanza Fire
The aim of this paper was to provide an overview of the current state of the art on research into the emission of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) from vegetation fires. Significant amounts of VOCs are emitted from vegetation fires, including several reactive…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, heat effects, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, chemical compounds, hydrocarbons, organic soils, ozone, plant communities, remote sensing, Africa, Amazon, South America, fire management, Mediterranean habitats, savannas, biomass burning, BVOC - Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds, combustion phases, forest fires, isoprenoids, plant communities and functional types
Forest fires are a major contributor of gaseous and particulate compounds to the atmosphere, impairing air quality and affecting human health. A new forest fire emissions module was developed and integrated into the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), which…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire case histories, fire intensity, fire size, fuel loading, fuel moisture, wildfires, air quality, gases, humidity, overstory, particulates, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, temperature, Portugal, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, forest aires, burnt area, gas and particulate pollutants, air quality
Naturally occurring radionuclides of uranium, thorium, radium, lead and polonium were determined in bushes and trees and in the smoke from summer forest fires. Activity concentrations of radionuclides in smoke particles were much enriched when compared to original vegetation.…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, radiation, toxicity, Portugal, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, forest fires, radioactivity, polonium, inhalation, radiation dose
Smoke from biomass fires makes up a substantial portion of global greenhouse gas, aerosol, and black carbon (GHG/A/BC) emissions. Understanding how fuel characteristics and conditions affect fire occurrence and extent, combustion dynamics, and fuel consumption is critical for…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: remote sensing, classification, sampling, scaling
The analysis of large forest and peat fires, the peculiarities of their development and the impact on the environment is conducted. The main characteristics of forest fires are considered. The thermal characteristics and evaluation of the heat generation of large forest fires…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, air pollution, Russia, forest fires, combustion products, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire size, wildfires, air quality, pollution, fire management, forest management