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An algorithm for retrieving nighttime aerosol optical depth (AOD) from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day-Night Band (DNB) observations of reflected moonlight is presented for rural areas during the western U.S. fire seasons. The algorithm uses the UNified…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: AOD - aerosol optical depth, retrieval, algorithms, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, DNB - day-night band, moonlight observation, smoke transport, diurnal cycle, rural, air quality
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Wildfires in the western US have been particularly impactful in recent years not only in terms of loss of life and property but widespread smoke affecting millions of people. Several new satellites have launched…
Person: O'Neill
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, remote sensing, GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, health impact analysis, Wine Country fires, Camp Fire, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, AQI - Air Quality Index, wildfires, mortality, GoFAST - GOES Fire and Smoke Tool
Biomass burning is a major source of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and particulate matter (PM) emissions in China. Despite increasing efforts of fire monitoring, it remains challenging to quantify the variability in interannual and seasonal emissions of GHGs and PM from biomass…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, greenhouse gases, northeastern China, solid fuels, crop residue burning, PM2.5, PM10, biomass burning, air quality, emission inventories, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, FRP - Fire Radiative Power
Ecosystems require access to key nutrients like nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) to sustain growth and healthy function. However, excessive deposition can also damage ecosystems through nutrient imbalances, leading to changes in productivity and shifts in ecosystem structure. While…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: wildfires, wildland fire, N - nitrogen, nitrogen deposition, ecosystem impacts, S - sulfur, atmospheric chemistry modeling, tree growth, tree survival, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System
Satellite-based burned area products are accurate for many regions. However, only limited assessments exist for Indonesia despite extensive burning and globally important carbon emissions. We evaluated the accuracy of four MODIS-derived (moderate resolution imaging…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: tropical peatlands, Indonesia, wildfires, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, burned area mapping, temporal accuracy, remote sensing
In 2019, an unusually strong positive Indian Ocean Dipole spawned hot and dry weather in southeastern Australia, which promoted devastating wildfires in the period from September 2019 to February 2020. The fires produced large plumes of biomass burning aerosols that prevented…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, wildfires, aerosols, direct radiative forcing, direct aerosol radiative forcing, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, AERONET - Aerosol Robotic Network, biomass burning, satellite data
Climate change is intensifying global wildfire activity, and people and wildlife are increasingly exposed to hazardous air pollution during large-scale smoke events. Although wildfire smoke is considered a growing risk to public health, few studies have investigated the impacts…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, wildlife behavior, wildlife health, wildfire, health effects, wildlife movement, air pollution, conservation, climate change
The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities and successes in the Western…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), wildfire, wildland fire
Fire activity and severity is increasing in the high northern latitudes, including burning landscapes long thought to be "fire resistant." Across the Pan-Arctic, smoke impacts from lengthening fire seasons in the boreal and the Arctic mean new public health challenges, as well…
Person: McCarty
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Arctic region, climate change, black carbon, Russia, Canada, air quality, Siberia, agricultural fires, Scandinavia, burned area, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, cultural burning, Indigenous burning
Prescribed burning (PB) is a prominent source of PM2.5 in the southeastern US and exposure to PB smoke is a health risk. As demand for burning increases and stricter controls are implemented for other anthropogenic sources, PB emissions tend to be responsible for an increasing…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, air quality, Southwestern Georgia, sensors, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, human health
Smoke impacts from large wildfires are mounting, and the projection is for more such events in the future as the one experienced October 2017 in Northern California, and subsequently in 2018 and 2020. Further, the evidence is growing about the health impacts from these events…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: health impacts, WRF-SMOKE-CMAQ model, GOES-16, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, wildfires, air quality, remote sensing, human health
Digital dictionary for plot 6, 2015 Willow Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2015 Willow Fire, Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, low severity fire, moderate severity fire, burnout operation, fire suppression
Digital dictionary for plot 5, 2015 Willow Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2015 Willow Fire, Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, high severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, unmanaged fuels
Digital dictionary for plot 4, 2015 Willow Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2015 Willow Fire, Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels
Digital dictionary for plot 1, 2015 Willow Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2015 Willow Fire, Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, flanking fire, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, fire suppression
Digital dictionary for plot 5, 2006 Warm Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: 2006 Warm Fire, Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, light wind, moderate rate of spread, surface fire, high severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire
Digital dictionary for plot 4, 2006 Warm Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: 2006 Warm Fire, Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels
Digital dictionary for plot 3, 2006 Warm Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: 2006 Warm Fire, Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, light wind, moderate rate of spread, surface fire, torching, moderate severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels
Digital dictionary for plot 1, 2006 Warm Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: 2006 Warm Fire, Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Coconino County, light wind, high rate of spread, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels
Digital dictionary for plot 8, 2019 Walker Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2019 Walker Fire, Plumas National Forest, California, Plumas County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, burnout operation, unmanaged fuels
Digital dictionary for plot 4, 2019 Walker Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2019 Walker Fire, Plumas National Forest, California, Plumas County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, uncontained widlfire, activity fuels, fire suppression
Digital dictionary for plot 17, 2015 Rough Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2015 Rough Fire, Sierra National Forest, California, Fresno County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, torching, high severity fire
Digital dictionary for plot 16, 2015 Rough Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2015 Rough Fire, Sequoia National Forest, California, Fresno County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, activity fuels
Digital dictionary for plot 14, 2015 Rough Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2015 Rough Fire, Sequoia National Forest, California, Fresno County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, activity fuels
Digital dictionary for plot 12, 2015 Rough Fire, providing a summary of fuels, vegetation, climate, fire behavior, and fire effects data collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT). The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2015 Rough Fire, Sequoia National Forest, California, Fresno County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, low severity fire, unburned, activity fuels, piled fuels