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Person:
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, site treatments, slash, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, fuel moisture, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, broadcast burning, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, conifers, experimental areas, fire intensity, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, Pseudotsuga menziesii, site treatments, slash, wind

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Person:
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Australia, chemistry, cropland fires, ecosystem dynamics, litter, microclimate, organic matter, population density, precipitation, Queensland, Saccharum officinarum, seasonal activities, size classes, smoke effects, statistical analysis, weather observations, wind

FOFEM - A First Order Fire Effects Model - is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, computer program, tree mortality, soil heating, fuel consumption, fuel load, duff, moisture regimes, fire intensity

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, light wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, torching, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, high wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, active crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, torching, surface fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, torching, surface fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, torching, surface fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, active crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, active crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Buffalo Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, 2016 Buffalo Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Buffalo Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, 2016 Buffalo Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Buffalo Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, 2016 Buffalo Fire

The Ecology of Smoke is something that has been considered by very few in the United States, despite extensive and intensive interest and research into frequent fire systems. This presentation will review some of the existing science; present some recent data on smoke and…
Person: Lata
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: air quality, smoke exposure, germination, plant growth, ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa, Linum lewisii, Penstemon barbatus

In this study, WRF-Sfire is coupled with WRF-Chem to construct WRFSC, an integrated forecast system for wildfire behaviour and smoke prediction. WRF-Sfire directly predicts wildfire spread, plume and plume-top heights, providing comprehensive meteorology and fire emissions to…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire case histories, fire danger rating, fuel moisture, wildfires, air quality, particulates, fire management, smoke management

In this study, volatile and semi-volatile organic compound (VOCs and SVOCs) mass emission factors were determined from laboratory peat fire experiments. The peat samples originated from two National Wildlife Refuges on the coastal plain of North Carolina, U.S.A. Gas- and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biomass burning, laboratory fires, peat fires, North Carolina, air quality, C - carbon, organic soils, peat, fire management, smoke management, coastal plain, biomass burning, organic soil, VOC - volatile organic compounds, emission factors, Fine-Particle Emissions, wood combustion, source apportionment, particulate matter, gas phase, biomass, tracers

See publishers web site for abstract. http://www.springeronline.com © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015.
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, wildfires, Sierra Nevada, fire management, forest management, fuel management, coniferous forests, treatment optimization, burn probability, fuel treatments, mixed conifer, mixed-conifer forest, reduction treatments, western United States, Treatment Impacts, wildland fires, ponderosa pine, carbon stocks, spotted owl

Humans use combustion for heating and cooking, managing lands, and, more recently, for fuelling the industrial economy. As a shift to fossil-fuel-based energy occurs, we expect that anthropogenic biomass burning in open landscapes will decline as it becomes less fundamental to…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass burning, human caused fires, carbon dioxide, climate change, fire management, fuel management, smoke management, anthropogenic burning, carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, Global Fire, pyrogeography, fire regimes, wildfire, Impact, Anthropocene, transition, landscape, patterns, drivers

A lack of independent, quality-assured data prevents scientists from effectively evaluating predictions and uncertainties in fire models used by land managers. This paper presents a summary of pre-fire and post-fire fuel, fuel moisture and surface cover fraction data that can be…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, fuel loading, fuel moisture, post fire recovery, surface fuels, Florida, Georgia, ash, char, cover, energy, herbaceous vegetation, litter, military lands, mineral soils, shrubs, fire management, forest management, land management, ash, fuel consumption, fuel loading, longleaf pine

The lack of independent, quality-assured field data prevents scientists from effectively evaluating and advancing wildland fire models. To rectify this, scientists and technicians convened in the southeastern United States in 2008, 2011 and 2012 to collect wildland fire data in…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, Florida, Georgia, energy, military lands, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management, fire model evaluation, remote-piloted aircraft system

There is limited research on the exposure of wildland firefighters to smoke because of the operational obstacles when monitoring air pollutants in the field. In this work, a grid of portable sensors was used to measure PM2.5 and CO concentrations in the near-source region during…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: experimental fires, firefighting personnel, fuel loading, fuel moisture, smoke effects, wildfires, Europe, Portugal, air quality, fire management, fuel management, smoke management, shrublands, Fire Experiments, smoke emissions, smoke plume, firefighter exposure, Portable Sensor

This study monthly combustion tests were conducted on pine green leaves during June 2008 similar to May 2012 (4 years) for combustion pattern analysis of forest fires according to climate change in Korea. As result of research, fuel humidity of 75 similar to 178% was shown for 4…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire identification, fire pattern, wildfire research, climate change, pine tree, combustion

An airborne infrared line scanner sensitive to the 3- to 5-micron spectral region mapped 38 forest fires during the 1963, 1964, and 1966 fire seasons. The imagery obtained provideed information about the fire perimeter, relative intensity of burning areas, and spot fire location…
Person:
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel types, mopping up, photography, rate of spread, spot fires, topography, wildfires