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We have analyzed the soluble portion of impurities trapped in solid precipitation that accumulated at Summit (central Greenland) from 1193 A.D. to the present. Seventy-three ice layers show elevated concentrations of ammonium and formate, caused by high-latitude biomass burning…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: Greenland, ice cores, biomass burning, ion concentrations, boreal vegetation, paleoclimate
We assessed the exposure of rural residents in the small community of Theobroma, Brazil, to the smoke generated from widespread agricultural and forest burning during August and September, 1995. Samples were collected for an 8-day period by using five battery powered personal…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, agricultural burning, forest burning, CO - carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, personal aerosol sampling pumps, benzene, respirable particles, biomass burning, Amazon, air quality
Investigations of the ecological, atmospheric chemical, and climatic impacts of contemporary fires in tropical vegetation have received increasing attention during the last 10 years. Little is known, however, about the impacts of climate changes on tropical vegetation and…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, Andropogon virginicus, bibliographies, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, Central America, cover type conversion, deforestation, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, evapotranspiration, evergreens, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fragmentation, fuel loading, climate change, grasses, Hakea sericea, human caused fires, Imperata, India, Indonesia, introduced species, invasive species, land management, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, Melaleuca quinquenervia, Mexico, montane forests, Pennisetum, Pinus, plant communities, Poa, post-fire recovery, precipitation, savannas, South America, Southeast Asia, species diversity (plants), storms, temperature, tropical forests, tropical regions, wildfires
Within the Proteaceae, 353 species confined to 7 genera in the Grevilleoideae have woody fruits. The majority (> 70%) occur in fire-prone vegetation on nutrient-poor, summer-dry soils of south-western Australia. These species are characterised by large, winged seeds contained…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: arid regions, arthropods, Australia, Banksia, biomass, birds, community ecology, Dryandra, fire adaptations (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fruits, germination, Hakea, herbivory, insects, leaves, marsupials, Mediterranean habitats, mortality, phenology, plant growth, plant nutrients, plant physiology, population ecology, post fire recovery, protein, regeneration, resprouting, sclerophyll vegetation, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed production, seedlings, seeds, serotiny, smoke effects, soils, species diversity (plants), Testa, water, wind
Smoke from forest fires in southern Mexico was advected into the U.S. southern plains from April to June 1998. Cloud-to-ground lightning (CG) flash data from the National Lightning Detection Network matched against satellite-mapped aerosol plumes imply that thunderstorms forming…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, droughts, fire danger rating, fire management, lightning, lightning effects, Mexico, smoke effects, smoke management, storms, Texas
From the Summary ... 'Prescribed surface fire in southern pine forests controls brown spot (Scirrhia acicola) of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) and fusiform rust (Cronartium fusiforme) of southern pines. Rhizina root rot and many wood rots are favored by fire. Additional…
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Fire Ecology, Fire Ecology
Region(s): California, Eastern, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Southern, International
Keywords: agriculture, Agrostis tenuis, air quality, Arceuthobium, Australia, burning permits, Canada, Claviceps purpurea, Cronartium fusiforme, croplands, Cynodon dactylon, diseases, Festuca arundinacea, Festuca rubra, fire equipment, fire frequency, fire management, firing techniques, fuel management, fungi, Gloeotinia temulenta, grass fires, grasses, human caused fires, Idaho, insects, Lolium perenne, longleaf pine, Minnesota, Oregon, pine forests, pine, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, Rhizina, Rhizina undulata, Scirrhia acicola, site treatments, slash, Washington, wood
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, Europe, Finland, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national forests, national parks, rural communities, Russia, suppression, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: annual plants, Audouinia capitata, Australia, Banksia, Banksia attenuata, Banksia menziesii, Fabaceae, forest management, germination, Hibbertia amplexicaulis, introduced species, Leucopogon conostephioides, mortality, native species (plants), perennial plants, plant growth, post fire recovery, season of fire, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, smoke effects, Stipa, Stirlingia, western Australia, germination, seedling survival, soil stored seed-bank
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biomass, cover, fire danger rating, fire management, fragmentation, human caused fires, ignition, land use planning, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, backfires, duff, education, Europe, fire control, fire equipment, fire suppression, firebreaks, litter, moisture, mosses, smoke management, Soviet Union, taiga, USSR, wildfires
Burning of slashed tropical forests and pastures is among the most significant global sources of atmospheric emissions, yet the composition of the fuels and fires that creates these emissions is not well characterized. As part of the Smoke, Clouds, and Radiation-Brazil (SCAR-B)…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: aboveground biomass, tropical forest, Brazil, pasture, canopy fire
This report presents data describing the air quality within 50 km of the Miller Creek experimental block in terms of 24-hour average mass loadings in the atmosphere, some results of the airborne analysis of the combustion products from two typical flights, diffusion analysis of…
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northern Rockies, International
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Australia, clearcutting, combustion, distribution, duff, field experimental fires, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, Larix occidentalis, logging, Montana, national forests, needles, particulates, photography, Picea, pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, sampling, size classes, slash, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires
Boreal peatlands occupy about 1.14 x 106 km2 in North America. Fires can spread into peatlands, burning the biomass, and if moisture conditions permit, burning into the surface peat. Charred layers in peat sections reveal that historically bogs in the subhumid continental…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Canada, air quality, boreal peatland, carbon cycle, carbon sink, climate change, bogs, biomass, boreal forest, C - carbon, fire frequency, fire intensity, natural areas management, moisture, hydrocarbons, peatlands, rate of spread, soil temperature, swamps, tundra, wildfires
Boreal forests and woodlands comprise about 29% of the world's forest cover. About 70% of this forest is in Eurasia, mostly in the Russian Federation. Boreal forests contain about 45% of the world's growing stock and are an increasingly important part of global timber production…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: air quality, boreal forest, fire, fire regime, carbon cycle, climate change, forest productivity, Russia, Siberia
A large forest fire occurred about 300 km to the northeast of the Edmonton area in early summer 1995. The forest fire produced nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and ozone which were transported down-wind. Continuous monitoring of O3, NO and NO2 and integrated measurements of…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alberta, Canada, fire management, hydrocarbons, N - nitrogen, ozone, pollution, smoke management, urban habitats, wildfires, forest fire, ozone, photochemical smog, urban and rural pollution, air quality
Despite increasing temperatures since the end of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1850), wildfire frequency has decreased as shown in many field studies from North America and Europe. We believe that global warming since 1850 may have triggered decreases in fire frequency in some regions…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, climate model, global change, Europe, Abies balsamea, age classes, Alberta, Betula spp., bibliographies, CO2 - carbon dioxide, climatology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Finland, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, climate change, grasslands, histories, humidity, Iva, Lake States, land use, Minnesota, Montana, New Brunswick, North Dakota, Norway, Ontario, Picea spp., pine hardwood forests, Pinus spp., population density, Populus spp., precipitation, Quebec, Rocky Mountains, Scandinavia, season of fire, South Dakota, species diversity, succession, Sweden, temperature, Vermont, wildfires, wind, Wyoming
In-flight measurements of the following parameters have been carried out in the smoke from prescribed fires: carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter, integrated light scattering coefficient and ultraviolet radiation intensity. One fire (in…
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, ash, Australia, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, fire intensity, fire management, light, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, radiation, sampling, smoke management, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, Victoria, western Australia
Fires in tropical savannas are a principal source of emissions to the atmosphere, but there are few studies of retention in ash and residual plant mass following natural fires. Estimates of carbon and nitrogen emissions to the atmosphere from biomass burning have relied largely…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: carbon emissions, biomass burning, global climate change, South Africa, global emission budgets, nitrogen emissions, natural combustion, Africa, air quality, air temperature, arid regions, ash, biomass, C - carbon, char, combustion, disturbance, field experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, gases, grass fire, climate change, grazing, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, sampling, smoke effects, Tanzania, temperature, tropical forest, volatilization, wildfires