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Year: 1986
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, National
Keywords: air quality, fire intensity, hardwoods, herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, Quercus michauxii
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Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Rhus radicans, Rhus toxicodendron, Rhus vernix, smoke effects, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Agropyron smithii, Andropogon gerardii, Andropogon scoparius, forage, forbs, grasses, grasslands, Poa pratensis, population density, prairies, range management, season of fire, smoke management, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, grasslands, Pseudotsuga menziesii, range management, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke management
The chemical composition and size of individual particles derived from combustion products of several species found in Southern California were obtained using aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The major inorganic species observed in >90% of all biomass burning…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California
Keywords: biomass burning, smoke effects, aerosols, air quality, chemical compounds, particulates, K - potassium, southern California, fire management, smoke management, chaparral
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Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Borneo, Indonesia, light, logging, photography, rainforests, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, cellulose, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, coniferous forests, Eucalyptus dalrympleana, fire intensity, fuel types, grasses, grasslands, hydrocarbons, Lolium, Oregon, particulates, sampling, smoke management, soot, Tsuga mertensiana, vegetation surveys
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies amabilis, Abies concolor, Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, Abies magnifica, air quality, arthropods, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, conifers, cover type, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forbs, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, grasses, grasslands, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, histories, hydrology, Idaho, insects, Juniperus, landscape ecology, Larix occidentalis, Montana, montane forests, mountains, national forests, Nevada, northern California, Oregon, overstory, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus edulis, Pinus flexilis, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, Populus, prairies, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, Quercus garryana, range management, relict vegetation, remote sensing, rivers, Salix, shrublands, sloping terrain, smoke management, succession, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, Utah, Washington, watershed management, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming
From the text...'Major policy initiatives and implementation of new management strategies are currently underway in both air resource and fire management. Land managers are rapidly expanding the use of fire to manage ecosystems, while air resource managers are accelerating…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel models, GIS, public information, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'In addition to tremendous costs associated with suppression, wildfires have a dramatic impact on the health of our forests. California forests have become dangerous tinderboxes, filled with decaying, overstocked trees and chaparral. In its March 1996 statewide…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: age classes, air quality, burning permits, catastrophic fires, chaparral, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel management, grasslands, liability, national forests, particulates, private lands, range management, trees, watershed management, wildfires
A strategy for the protection, preservation, and restoration of national forest giant sequoia groves is being formulated using a conceptual framework for ecosystem management recently developed by Region Five of the USDA Forest Service. The framework includes physical,…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: age classes, air quality, arthropods, community ecology, diameter classes, diseases, dominance (ecology), drainage, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, forest management, fuel loading, hardwood forests, hydrology, insects, mosaic, national forests, old growth forests, organic soils, plant communities, population density, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, sedimentation, seedlings, Sequoia, size classes, snags, surface fires, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, water, watersheds, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Yosemite National Park
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, arthropods, catastrophic fires, coastal forests, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, diseases, disturbance, droughts, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, fishes, flammability, floods, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, health factors, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, light burning, logging, Montana, multiple resource management, national forests, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, rangelands, recreation, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, species diversity, stand characteristics, streamflow, Texas, topography, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Utah, Washington, water, water quality, watersheds, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, Wyoming
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099,412 acres (849,632 ha) - 3.6…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, crown fires, deforestation, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire regimes, fire suppression, fire whirls, firefighting personnel, forage, forest management, fuel loading, fungi, grasslands, grazing, Hilaria mutica, histories, human caused fires, livestock, Mexico, pine forests, Pinus durangensis, Pinus edulis, Pinus engelmannii, Pinus hartwegii, Pinus montezumae, Pinus patula, Pinus rudis, plant diseases, Quercus, regeneration, resprouting, roots, savannas, shrublands, slash and burn, smoke effects, statistical analysis, surface fires, wilderness fire management, wildfires, xeric soils
Atmospheric composition, local climate and sapling gas exchange were monitored to assess the short-term effects of smoke-haze from the 1997 Indonesian forest fires. Atmospheric concentrations of particulate matter, SO2, CO, CH4 and CO2, and relative humidity were elevated, and…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, carbon dioxide, deforestation, fire case histories, fire management, forest management, humidity, Indonesia, native species (plants), particulates, photosynthesis, pollution, radiation, seedlings, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, S - sulfur, temperature, tropical forests, wildfires, aerosols, Borneo, particulate matter, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, tree species, tropical deforestation
A computational procedure for predicting the buoyant plume above a line fire in a cross wind is reported. The present model takes into account the interaction between the plume and the surrounding flow by solving the two-dimensional equations for the conservation of mass,…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: cross wind, fire impact modeling, buoyant plume
Handbook for criteria pollutant inventory development: a beginner's guide for point and area sources
This document will help state, local, and tribal air pollution control agency personnel compile an inventory of criteria pollutant emissions from stationary (point and area) sources. The information contained in this document is intended to serve as a reference guide only, and…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, PM2.5, air pollution, area source, ozone, PM10, point source, CO - carbon monoxide, pollutants, EI - Emission Inventory, nitrogen oxides
The chemical composition and size of individual particles derived from combustion products of several species found in Southern California were obtained using aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The major inorganic species observed in >90% of all biomass burning…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: aerosols, biomass burning, aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry
The trace gas emissions from six biomass fires, including three grass fires, were measured using a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer coupled to an open-path, multipass cell (OP-FTIR). The quantified emissions consisted of carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, water vapor,…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: laboratory fires, surface fuels, trace gas emissions, infrared spectroscopy
The effect that the wind's vertical variation has on fire plume behaviour is investigated. A parabolized set of governing equations are discretized using finite differences to arrive at the numerical model. Lagrangian particles are used to visualize the flow, account for…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California
Keywords: plume rise, wind, plume structure, particulate emissions
Smoke from raging fires produced in the aftermath of a major nuclear exchange has been predicted to cause large decreases in surface temperatures. However, the extent of the decrease and even the sign of the temperature change depend on how the smoke is distributed with altitude…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: heat release rate, atmospheric stability, plume rise, wind speed, water vapor, nuclear explosions, smoke injection height
Prescribed fires are used on about 155,000 acres of land each year in the Pacific Northwest states of Oregon and Washington. Particulate matter emission factors can be altered by selecting optimal burning conditions to improve combustion efficiency. This paper reports on the…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: Oregon, phases of combustion, Washington, emission factors, particulate matter (PM) emissions
Evolving wildfire management policies are aimed at more comprehensive treatments of current wildland fire management problems. Key policies are identified that affect wildfire and fuels management. Policies are discussed in the context of institutional factors such as…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: BEHAVE, fire management, fire suppression, resource management, coordination
A numerical index that estimates the atmosphere's capacity to disperse smoke from prescribed burning is described. The physical assumptions and mathematical development of the index are given in detail. A preliminary interpretation of dispersion index values is offered. A…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Gaussian Dispersion Models, smoke management, ventilation factor, air quality forecasting, Mesoscale, air pollution potential, Pasquill stability class, air pollution sources, air quality, smoke management
This strategic plan is a technical discussion of the implementation and development of models and data systems used to manage the air quality impacts of wildland and prescribed fires. Strategies and priorities in the plan were generated by the Express Team (chartered by the…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, fire modeling, wildland fire, air, air pollution, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, air resource management, data systems