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The dynamics and structure of the phytomass and production of an undisturbed mesotrophic dwarf shrub-sphagnum phytocenosis and one burned by fire have been compared. The net primary production (NPP) of both sites of phytocenoses in the postpyrogenic period is estimated by direct…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Asia, Russia, C - carbon, remote sensing, fire management, watershed management, peat bogs, Mesotrophic Mire, productivity, carbon emissions
Tropical peatland fires play a significant role in the context of global warming through emissions of substantial amounts of greenhouse gases. However, the state of knowledge on carbon loss from these fires is still poorly developed with few studies reporting the associated mass…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, C - carbon, climate change, drainage, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, fire management, watershed management, peatlands, tropical regions, peat fires, carbon loss, climate change, fires, Indonesia, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, remote sensing, tropical peatlands, land-cover change, Southeast Asia, peat fires, Indonesia, forest, soil, vegetation, Algorithm, severity
This paper presents a quantitative assessment of adaptation options in the context of forest fires in Europe under projected climate change. A standalone fire model (SFM) based on a state-of-the-art large-scale forest fire modelling algorithm is used to explore fuel removal…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Europe, climate change, fire management, forest management, forest fires, adaptation, climate change research, community land nodel, burned area, biomass, scenarios, dynamics
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Models, Logistics, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, Asia, India, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, vegetation, Algorithm, wildfire, tropics
The 2015 fire season and related smoke pollution in Indonesia was more severe than the major 2006 episode, making it the most severe season observed by the NASA Earth Observing System satellites that go back to the early 2000s, namely active fire detections from the Terra and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire intensity, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, air quality, droughts, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, fire management, land use, smoke management, Indonesia, biomass burning, haze, pollution
We present a study focusing on detection and initial quantitative estimates of ethylene (C2H4) in observations from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), a Fourier transform spectrometer aboard the Aura satellite that measures thermal infrared radiances with high…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): California
Keywords: biomass burning, flame length, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, hydrocarbons, ozone, remote sensing, fire management, Ethylene, Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer, satellite remote sensing
Wildfires are important contributors to atmospheric aerosols and a large source of emissions that impact regional air quality and global climate. In this study, the regional and nearfield influences of wildfire emissions on ambient aerosol concentration and chemical properties…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: biomass burning, combustion, wildfires, Oregon, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, biomass burning emissions, Organic Aerosol, Mass-Spectrometer, high resolution, trace gases, chemical composition, particulate matter, mixing ratios
Fire and herbivory are the two consumers of above-ground biomass globally. They have contrasting impacts as they differ in terms of selectivity and temporal occurrence. Here, we integrate continental-scale data on fire and herbivory in Africa to explore (i) how environmental…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, wildfires, Africa, grazing, greenhouse gases, herbivory, mammals, CH4 - methane, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, wildlife management, savannas, Fire - Grazer Interactions, Savannah Determinants, greenhouse gas emissions
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…
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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
In September-October 2015, ElNino and positive Indian Ocean Dipole conditions set the stage for massive fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), leading to persistently hazardous levels of smoke pollution across much of Equatorial Asia. Here we quantify the emission…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire size, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, air quality, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, health factors, remote sensing, fire management, land use, smoke management, Land Use Change Fires, smoke exposure, GEOS-Chem Adjoint
Satellite characterization of local aerosol pollution is desirable because of the potential for broad spatial coverage, enabling transport studies of pollution from major sources, such as biomass burning events. However, retrieval of quantitative measures of air pollution such…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: biomass burning, Nevada, aerosols, air quality, albedo, pollution, remote sensing, fire management, smoke management, MODIS, algorithms, albedo, Deep-Blue, Dark-Target, biomass burning
We apply satellite fire detection products and air quality modeling to study the contribution of fire emissions to ambient aerosol concentrations over the southeastern U.S. We find that satellite MODIS fire counts show more extensive summer burnings than suggested by the bottom-…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildfires, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, fire management, PM2.5, OC, EC, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Satellite Fire Remote Sensing, secondary organic aerosol, Algorithm, photooxidation, performance, validation
Subtitle: Indonesian peatlands need to be protected and restored to prevent fires and the health, environmental and economic impact that they have on the wider region. © Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire size, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, air quality, health factors, fire management, smoke management, peatlands, El-Nino, Indonesia, forests
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, 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: wildland fires, adaptation, mitigation, resilience, information sharing
Wildfire emissions in the boreal forests yield an important contribution to the chemical budget of the troposphere. To assess the contribution of wildfire to the emissions of atmospheric trace species in the Great Xing’an Mountains (GXM), which is also the most severe fire-prone…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, satellite, China, burned area, boreal forests, fire activity, fire scars, fire size, aerosols, air quality, particulates, remote sensing, fire management, forest management
The combined use of chemical analysis of organic molecules in atmospheric aerosols (PM1) collected in situ in Barcelona and optical measurements with a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) instrument allowed the characterization of the smoke plume from a wildfire that reached the…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: organic aerosols, levoglucosan, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, FLEXPART, Spain, air quality, biomass burning, wildfires, aerosols, remote sensing, fire management, smoke management, urban habitats
Introduction: Non-compliance with respiratory protection programs among firefighters may put them at increased risk of injury and illness from occupational exposures during fire extinguishing activities. This research aims to characterize respiratory protection practices among…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: firefighters, respiratory protection, respiratory illness, Florida, survey
Presentation to the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee Arctic Data Collaboration Team Meeting September 2016 by Eric Miller on behalf of the Wildfires Collaboration Team.
Person: Miller
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: data, data management, remote sensing, fire management, data gaps, wildfire, Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group, soil moisture, fire severity, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, fuels mapping, burn severity, RAWS - Remote Automated Weather Station, fuel moisture, NDVI - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
Randi Jandt provides a roundup of new science relevant to Alaska's fire managers to the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, April 1, 2016.
Person: Jandt
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Intelligence, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: soil moisture, SMAP - Soil Moisture Active Passive, remote sensing, research, fire management, annual area burned
[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
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Year: 2016
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: wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), WFLC - Wildland Fire Leadership Council, fuels management, CPAW - Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire, community planning, wildfire
On the evening of July 30, 2015, 38-year-old Black Hills National Forest Engine Captain David “Dave” Ruhl was entrapped and killed while scouting on foot during initial attack of the Frog Fire on the Modoc National Forest (Region 5, California). A Coordinated Response Team was…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Logistics, Planning, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: Frog Fire, Modoc National Forest, firefighter fatalities, lessons learned, entrapment, fatalities, fire management, fire suppression, training
Characterizing public tolerance of smoke from wildland fires in communities across the United States
Little is known about public tolerance of smoke from wildland fires. By combining data from two household surveys, we sought to determine whether tolerance of smoke from wildland fires varies with its origin or managerial rationale, to describe geographical variation in…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: forest management, public health, tolerance, public acceptance, wildfires, survey, fire suppression, lightning caused fires, Oregon, South Carolina, Montana, Idaho, Texas, Louisiana, air quality, health factors, slash, thinning, fire management, smoke management, smoke effects
Fuel treatments in fire-suppressed mixed-conifer forests are designed to moderate potential wildfire behavior and effects. However, the objectives for modifying potential fire effects can vary widely, from improving fire suppression efforts and protecting infrastructure, to…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: fuel treatments, fuel treatment strategies, trade-offs, fire severity, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire suppression, wildfires, Sierra Nevada, air quality, particulates, fire management, fuel management, forest management, wildlife habitat management, coniferous forests
Wildfires are heating up once again in the American West. In 2015, wildfires burned more than 10 million acres in the United States at a cost of $2.1 billion in federal expenditures. As the fires burned, the U.S. Forest Service announced that, for the first time, more than half…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: budget, wildfire management, wildfire policy
In this presentation Evan will provide a brief introduction to efforts at the University of Maryland and the Joint (NASA and NOAA) Polar Science System’s (JPSS) Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) program. The goal of the PGRR project is to leverage the VIIRS AF products…
Person: Ellicott
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire risk reduction, remote sensing, satellite imagery, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, geospatial data, Sentinel-3