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The revision of FOFEM, a national fire effects model, is described. FOFEM 5.0 will incorporate the predictions of fuel consumption, tree mortality and smoke production along with the addition of soil heating and an updated user interface. The revised version of FOFEM will model…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, computer programs, cover, cover type, crown fires, fire injuries (plants), fire management, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel management, heat, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, mortality, overstory, soils, surface fires, understory vegetation, BURNUP
A comprehensive investigation of Canadian boreal forest fires was conducted using NOAA-AVHRR imagery. Algorithms were developed to (1) detect active forest fires, (2) map burned areas on daily and annual basis, and (3) estimate fire emissions based on burned area and Canadian…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alberta, boreal forests, Canada, carbon dioxide, cover, croplands, crown fires, digital data collection, droughts, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasslands, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Northwest Territories, Ontario, radiation, remote sensing, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, surface fires, wetlands, boreal forest, burned area, DIGITAL FUEL TYPE, FIRE PIXEL, FIRE DETENTION ALGORITHM, FLOWCHARTS, fuel consumption
Smoke may present the most intractable barrier of all to implementing more enlightened fire management. The benefits of a prescribed fire program can only be realized if the public and regulatory agencies agree that the air quality impacts are acceptable. Currently, land…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, computer programs, duff, fire management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, moisture, North Carolina, organic soils, ozone, particulates, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, wind
Needs for analytical tools, the roles existing tools play, the processes they represent, and how they might interact are elements of key findings generated during a workshop held in Seattle February 17-18, 1999. The workshop was attended by 26 Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: catastrophic fires, computer programs, digital data collection, diseases, disturbance, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel accumulation, fuel inventory, fuel management, fuel models, grasses, Idaho, ignition, insects, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, mosaic, multiple resource management, overstory, rate of spread, shrubs, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, snags, soils, surface fuels, understory vegetation, wildlife habitat management
Understanding the trade-off between short-term and long-term consequences of fire impacts on ecosystems is needed before a comprehensive fuels management program can be implemented nationally. We are comparing three vegetation models that may be used to predict the effects of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, biogeochemical cycles, catastrophic fires, computer programs, digital data collection, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel types, GIS, grasses, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, land use planning, logging, Michigan, Montana, mortality, national parks, New Mexico, overstory, prescribed fires (escaped), rate of spread, recreation, remote sensing, shrubs, smoke management, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, topography, understory vegetation, Utah, wildfires, wildland fuels, Yosemite National Park, risk assessment
A mesoscale data assimilation and prediction model has been applied over the Greater Sydney region to an air pollution episode resulting from fire hazard reduction burns during the period 12 to 14 April, 1997. The main objective of the study was, firstly, to model the inter-…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, chemistry, computer programs, fire hazard reduction, fire management, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, New South Wales, particulates, pollution, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wind, smoke transport, mesoscale modeling, data assimilation
Land managers are increasingly implementing strategies that employ the use of fire in prescribed burns to sustain ecosystems and plan to sustain the rate of increase in its use over the next five years. In planning and executing expanded use of fire in wildland treatment, it is…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, chemical compounds, combustion, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, gases, health factors, human caused fires, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, lightning caused fires, Native Americans, particulates, shrublands, sloping terrain, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, statistical analysis, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, smoldering combustion, FIREPLUME, air quality, wildland fires, plume rise, Monte Carlo, dispersion model, Lagrangian, smoke management plans, EPM - Emissions Production Model
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an initiative for a National Wildfire Prediction Program. The program will provide guidance for fire managers throughout the country, assisting them to efficiently use limited fire-fighting…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southwest, International
Keywords: catastrophic fires, computer programs, digital data collection, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel accumulation, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, light, Los Alamos, New Mexico, physics, smoke behavior, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildfire, prediction, firefighting, NWPP - National Wildfire Prediction Program
The workshop began with the workshop facilitator, Neil Sampson, summarizing 17 invited papers presented on the opening day of the conference. These papers provided a state-of-the-science overview of pre-selected topics including Overview (3 papers), GIS and Remote Sensing…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, erosion, Europe, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel appraisal, fuel models, GIS, grasslands, health factors, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, landscape ecology, overstory, remote sensing, shrublands, site treatments, smoke effects, soils, South America, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, United Kingdom, decision tools, dissemination of information, GLOBAL STUDIES
Fuels maps are a fundamental part of fire management activities such as prescribed fire planning, suppression strategies, smoke management, and fire effects. The constraints imposed by fiscal and human resources make it desirable to have a method that can rapidly and objectively…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, cover, cover type, croplands, crowns, deciduous forests, evergreens, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel inventory, GIS, grasses, grasslands, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land use, leaves, mosaic, mountains, photography, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, population density, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, remote sensing, rocky habitats, shrublands, smoke management, statistical analysis, suppression, understory vegetation, urban habitats, wetlands, woody plants, Wyoming, land cover, fire fuels, remote sensing, Landsat, aerial photography, NLCD (National Land Cover Data) SET, LEAF-ON and LEAF-OFF TM MOSAICS, barrens
One of the main problems is the strategic and operative prediction of wildland fire risks in Siberia. It requires the elaboration of a geoinformation expert system to predict emergency situations causing large wildland fires. The process for developing this system consists of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, duff, Europe, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire intensity, fire management, flame length, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel inventory, fuel management, GIS, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lakes, landscape ecology, litter, peat, rate of spread, rivers, Russia, season of fire, Siberia, smoke behavior, storms, streams, surface fires, vegetation surveys, vortices, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, REGIONAL FUEL MAPS, steppe fires
Prescribed fire was tested as a potential tool for site preparation and for reducing fire hazard after clearcut logging in dark coniferous forests in Siberia. Experimental burns were conducted on 8 sites to evaluate the practicality of fire use and effects of prescribed fires on…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, artificial regeneration, Asia, BEHAVE, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, coniferous forests, disturbance, experimental areas, experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, hydrocarbons, logging, low intensity burns, CH4 - methane, Pinus sylvestris, post fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, Russia, sampling, Siberia, slash, surface fires, wind, woody fuels
Ambient atmospheric aerosols and savanna fireparticulate emission samples from southern Africa werecharacterised in terms of particle classes and theirnumber abundance by electron probe X-ray microanalysis(EPXMA). About ten particle classes were identifiedfor each sample. The…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, aluminum, biomass, calcium, human caused fires, magnesium, particulates, K - potassium, savannas, smoke management, South Africa, S - sulfur, biomass burning, savanna fires, atmospheric aerosols, electron probe X-ray microanalysis, potassium chloride
Within a 2-week period in 1998, wildland fires swept across 500,000 acres of Florida*s lands. Over 1,700 fires ignited, leaving behind an enormous path of destruction on federal, state, and private lands. As the smoke continues to clear, many issues arise regarding the…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida, bark, brush, catastrophic fires, Ctenium aromaticum, Dendroctonus, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire danger rating, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, Florida, fragmentation, fuel appraisal, fuel management, GIS, grasses, habits and behavior, insects, introduced species, Ixia, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, landscape ecology, mortality, national forests, overstory, pine forests, Pinus, plant diseases, post fire recovery, private lands, remote sensing, state parks, suppression, threatened and endangered species (plants), vulnerable species or communities, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the Summary: The ultimate objective of the Division of Forestry*s new GIS-Based Fire Management systems is to provide quality service to the public and to minimize the harmful effects of smoke from open-burning, as well as minimize the loss of human life and property as a…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, computer networks, computer programs, droughts, duff, fire danger rating, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, GIS - geographic information system, GPS - global positioning system, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, multiple resource management, precipitation, rate of spread, remote sensing, rural communities, smoke behavior, smoke management, suppression, urban habitats, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires, burn, wildland fire
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, biomass, Canada, charcoal, computer programs, dendrochronology, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire scar analysis, fire size, climate change, heat, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, mosaic, remote sensing, sedimentation, vegetation surveys, wildfires
In 1998 the Joint Fire Science Program funded a project--A Risked-Based Comparison of Potential Fuels Treatment Tradeoff Models--whose purpose is to evaluate several ecosystem management models that explicitly deal with wildfire and other disturbances. One of the topics of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest types, fuel types, national forests, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Forest fuel loads are unnaturally high in the Sierra Nevada. The US Forest Service is currently preparing a prescribed fire program to reduce fuels in the region. Modeling, both short-term and long-term, direct and cumulative impacts to rural communities meets Federal mandates…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, axis, distribution, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest types, fuel loading, national forests, Nevada, rural communities, Sierra Nevada, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, US Forest Service
The wildland fire emissions estimation system is a geographic information system to calculate smoke released from forest fires. It is a method for producing coherent, consistent, spatially and temporally resolved GIS based emission estimates for wildfire and prescribed burning.…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, cover, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, GIS, health factors, histories, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires
A description of a proposed multi-component smoke forecasting system is presented. This system is an extension of that currently used for smoke management in Victoria (Australia) by Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) in collaboration with the Australian Bureau of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, computer programs, fire management, pollution, smoke behavior, smoke management, topography, Victoria, weather observations
The Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) is a general strategic tradeoff model useful for rapid assessment of landscape scale management and disturbance alternatives. In this study, shrub lands composed primarily of chaparral plant species and lower montane forests of the…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, chaparral, disturbance, fire management, land management, landscape ecology, montane forests, mountains, national forests, shrublands, wildfires
Following a survey of forest homeowners in rural Michigan to assess the value of reducing the risk of damage from wildfires at the wildland-urban interface, focus-group discussions were conducted with a subset of survey participants to learn about their perceptions concerning…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, brush, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, Dendroica kirtlandii, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, ignition, landscape ecology, Michigan, nongame birds, Pinus banksiana, private lands, public information, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, fire management, fire risk assessment, focus groups, Mack Lake Fire
The goal of this report is to analyze whether or not prescribed fire could be used to regain the meadow perimeter of Donegan Prairie. A secondary issue of protecting late successional habitat in surrounding old growth timber from high intensity fire also will be addressed. If…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: BEHAVE, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, FVS - Forest Vegetation Simulator, economic analysis, fuels reduction, Oregon, Umpqua National Forest, meadow restoration
Atmospheric deposition is the result of air pollution gases and aerosols leaving the atmosphere as 'dry' or 'wet' deposition. Little is known about just how much pollution is deposited onto soils, lakes and streams. To determine the extent and trends of forest exposure to air…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: nitrogen deposition, air resource management, sulfur deposition, wet deposition, dry deposition, atmospheric deposition, NADP/NTN, CASTNET, IMPROVE
The TASET project was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program to develop a structured analysis of smoke management and to recommend specific developments for advancing the state of science in this field. The structured analysis was conducted by determining specific information…
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Year: 2000
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, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke management, TASET - Technically Advanced Smoke Estimation Tools