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In this webinar, RMRS research ecologist Sam Cushman, wildlife biologist Joe Ganey, and research ecologist Gavin Jones discussed their latest research on spotted owls and wildfire, including modeling the impacts of habitat loss under climate change on the Mexican spotted owl,…
Person: Cushman, Ganey, Jones
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: climate change, Strix occidentalis, Strix occidentalis caurina, Strix occidentalis lucida, Strix occidentalis occidentalis, spotted owl, annual area burned, habitat, northern spotted owl, California spotted owl, Mexican spotted owl, forest composition, historical fire regime
A statement by the Wildland Fire Leadership Council and their partners relating to the benefits of prescribed fire programs.
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
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Air quality impacts from wildfires have been dramatic in recent years, with millions of people exposed to elevated and sometimes hazardous fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations for extended periods. Fires emit particulate matter (PM) and gaseous compounds that can…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, human health, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, health effects, respiratory health, cardiovascular health, wildfire, AQI - Air Quality Index, remote sensing, emission factors
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for co-occurring wildfires pose health threats to people around the globe. Along with the direct impacts of wildfires, exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5)-pollution composed of small inhalable particles with diameters of 2…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: COVID-19, fine particulate matter, PM2.5, public health
Wildfires in humid tropical forests have become more common in recent years, increasing the rates of tree mortality in forests that have not co-evolved with fire. Estimating carbon emissions from these wildfires is complex. Current approaches rely on estimates of committed…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Amazon, Brazil, CO2 - carbon dioxide, vegetation growth, stem mortality, tree mortality
The 2019–20 Australian mega-bushfires, which raged particularly over New South Wales and Victoria, released large amounts of toxic haze and CO2. Here, we investigate whether the resulting CO2 enhancement can be directly detected by satellite observations, based on National…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bushfire, megafires, satellite observations, CO2 - carbon dioxide
The Australian bushfires around the turn of the year 2020 generated an unprecedented perturbation of stratospheric composition, dynamical circulation and radiative balance. Here we show from satellite observations that the resulting planetary-scale blocking of solar radiation by…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, wildfires, vortex, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric dynamics, natural hazards, bushfires, pyro-Cb, pyro-cumulonimbus, remote sensing
Nitrous acid (HONO) is a precursor of the hydroxyl radical in the atmosphere, which controls the degradation of greenhouse gases, contributes to photochemical smog and ozone production, and influences air quality. Although biomass burning is known to contribute substantially to…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: atmospheric science, climate science, HONO - nitrous acid, wildfires, plumes, NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, satellite monitoring, remote sensing, greenhouse gases, O3 - ozone
Biomass burning (BB) emissions significantly deteriorate air quality in many regions worldwide, impact human health and perturbing Earth's radiation budget and climate. South America is one of largest contributors to BB emissions globally. After Amazonia, BB emissions from open…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Colombia, South America, biomass burning, atmospheric transport, air pollution, aerosol, health impacts, secondary organic aerosol, WRF-Chem
Carbon (C) emissions from wildfires are a key terrestrial–atmosphere interaction that influences global atmospheric composition and climate. Positive feedbacks between climate warming and boreal wildfires are predicted based on top-down controls of fire weather and climate, but…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire severity, fuel availability, C - carbon, carbon emissions, biogeochemistry, forest ecology, ecosystem ecology, carbon pools, SEM - structural equation modeling
Wildfires over the past 3 years have resulted in lengthy episodes of smoke inundation across major metropolitan areas in Australia, Brazil, and the United States. In 2020, air quality across the western United States reached and sustained extremely unhealthy to hazardous levels…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Australia, Brazil, PM - particulate matter, health impacts, air quality, human health
Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development
Cannabis cultivation and wildfires: Where there’s smoke, there’s smoke, Adam Cummings, Ecologist
Wildfires ignitions, costs to wildlife, and…
Person: Cummings, Gabriel, Lake
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: cannabis, wildlife, wildfire, rodenticide, cultivation, Indigenous burning, pyrodiversity, fish, solar radiation, inversion, fisheries, smoke density, AOT - aerosol optical thickness, water temperature
Wildfires and other types of biomass burning are a seasonal phenomenon in different land ecosystems around the world. Such fires are estimated to consume biomass containing a total of 2-5 petagrams of carbon globally every year, generating heat energy and emitting smoke plumes…
Person: Ichoku
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, biomass, PM - particulate matter, air quality, black carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, remote sensing, emission factor, satellite observations
Fire has been a natural feature of the ecosystem for million years. Still, currently fire regimes have been increasingly altered by human activities and climate change, causing economic losses, air pollution, and environmental damage. In Brazil, savannas (locally known as the…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, cerrado, savanna, frequent fires, plant biomass, climate change, aboveground biomass, carbon emissions, co-existence, fire frequency, management, BEFIRE
This webinar to the NWCG Smoke Committee describes experimental tools developed for smoke management including higher resolution 7-day forecasts. Presented by Bret Anderson, who works for the National USDA Forest Service Air program and develops tools for wildfire smoke…
Person: Anderson
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Smoke Dispersion Modeling, smoke modeling, air quality forecasting
Biomass burning, including fires, has been identified as the largest source of primary fine carbonaceous particles in the troposphere and one of the major drivers of global carbon (C) cycle, cloud properties, and climate. Most of the global C emissions happen in the Pantropic…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Mexico, biomass, carbon emissions, tropical forest fire, field observations, C - carbon, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, climate change, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, La Nina
Wildfires in the western United States are expected to increase both in size and severity in coming decades. These trends are likely to accelerate large-scale habitat loss and fragmentation for the spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest, California, and the Southwest. All three…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: spotted owl, Strix occidentalis, Strix occidentalis caurina, Strix occidentalis lucida, Strix occidentalis occidentalis, northern spotted owl, California spotted owl, Mexican spotted owl, large fires, annual area burned, habitat, fire severity, forest structure, forest composition
The Thomas Fire ignited on December 5, 2017 and burned nearly 300,000 acres of land in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties until January 12, 2018, making it the largest wildfire in California history at the time. During the fire, a persistent plume of ash, smoke, and soot…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Thomas Fire, Santa Barbara Channel, ash, phytoplankton, marine ecology
Fires burning across the Amazon in the summer of 2019 attracted global attention for the widespread destruction of natural ecosystems and regional smoke production. Using a combination of satellite fire observations and atmospheric modeling, Nawaz and Henze (2020, https://doi.…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: public health, Brazil, air pollution, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, human health, health impacts
There has been an increasing interest in the economic health cost from smoke exposure from wildfires in the past 20 years, particularly in the north-western USA that is reflected in an emergent literature. In this review, we provide an overview and discussion of studies since…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, International
Keywords: BenMAP Community Edition, health impacts, literature review, Canada
Reliable predictions of emissions from wildland fires are a key element of smoke management programs. Emission factors (the amount of pollutants produced per amount of fuel consumed) are used in models to estimate the composition of smoke. Over the past two decades, laboratory…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, air quality, fuel bed, flaming, smoldering, emission factors, wildfire
Wildfires, which are becoming more frequent and intense in many countries, pose serious threats to human health. To determine health impacts and provide public health messaging, satellite-based smoke plume data are sometimes used as a proxy for directly measured particulate…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: air pollution, wildfires, exposure assessment, environmental epidemiology, environmental health, human health, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter
Trace analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during wildfires is imperative for environmental and health risk assessment. The use of gas sampling devices mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to chemically sample air during wildfires is of great interest because…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: Camp Fire, VOC - volatile organic compounds, wildfires, micro preconcentrators, environmental sampling, mobile VOC sampling
In response to wildfire-related air quality issues as well as those associated with winter wood stove use and prescribed and agricultural burning, Clean Air Methow’s Clean Air Ambassador program established a community air monitoring network (CAMN) to provide geospatially…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: wildfire smoke, air quality, clean air monitoring network, community science, Washington
An intimate knowledge of aerosol transport is essential in reducing the uncertainty of the impacts of aerosols on cloud development. Datasets from the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement platform in the Southern Great Plains region (ARM‐SGP) and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: boundary layer, aerosols, aerosol-cloud interaction, chemistry, biomass burning, climatology, concentration, C - carbon