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The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange  held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Person: Carlson
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
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: HYSPLIT - Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory, smoke management

The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange  held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Person: Kiefer
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: dispersion models, air quality, fire management

The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange  held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Person: Norman, Lee
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Gatlinburg Fire, drought, southern Appalachians, fire management

This is the fifth webinar offered in the Air Quality Planning for Wildland Smoke series.
Person: Ward, Stewart, Saganic
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, health impacts, smoke exposure

This is the fourth webinar offered in the Air Quality Planning for Wildland Smoke series.
Person: Hostler, Ray
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, health impacts, disaster response

This is the third webinar offered in the Air Quality Planning for Wildland Smoke series.
Person: Stone, Vaughn, Moses
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, air quality, health impacts, PM - particulate matter

This is the second webinar offered in the Air Quality Planning for Wildland Smoke series.
Person: Baker, Kelly, Hagler
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, BlueSky Modeling Framework, fire management

This is the first webinar offered in the Air Quality Planning for Wildland Smoke series.
Person: Vedal, Rao, Gilmour
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: health impacts, Hayman Fire, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, air quality, Canada, British Columbia, health risk

Largely used in several independent estimates of fire emissions, fire products based on MODIS sensors aboard the Terra and Aqua polar‐orbiting satellites have a number of inherent limitations, including (a) inability to detect fires below clouds, (b) significant decrease of…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: WRF-Chem, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, smoke transport, biomass burning, Africa

In this paper, we examine biomass burning (BB) events at the Mt. Bachelor Observatory (MBO) during the summer of 2015. We explored the photochemical environment in these BB plumes, which remains poorly understood. Because we are interested in understanding the effect of aerosols…
Person:
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Oregon, Mt. Bachelor, biomass burning, aerosols, plumes, photochemical pollution

The results of sensing of the gas and aerosol composition of the atmosphere with the Optik Tu‐134 aircraft laboratory in the period from 31 July to 1 August 2012 are presented. The measurements were conducted along the flight route Novosibirsk‐Tomsk‐Mirny‐Yakutsk‐Bratsk‐…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Siberia, trace gases, aerosols, troposphere

Aerosol plumes from wildfires affect the Earth's climate system through regulation of the radiative budget and clouds. However, optical properties of aerosols from individual wildfire smoke plumes and their resultant impact on regional climate are highly variable. Therefore,…
Person:
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosol emissions, fire plumes, remote sensing, CALIPSO, MISR - Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer, Africa

In this paper, the decadal datasets available from the space-borne lidar, Cloud Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) onboard Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) are analyzed in order to understand the spatial and vertical…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: CALIPSO, aerosols, vertical distribution, trends, dust

Deforestation and draining of the peatlands in equatorial SE Asia has greatly increased their flammability, and in September–October 2015 a strong El Niño-related drought led to further drying and to widespread burning across parts of Indonesia, primarily on Kalimantan and…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, peatlands, PM - particulate matter, emission factors, PM2.5, air quality, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, El Niño

Strategies to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions through forestry activities have been proposed, but ecosystem process-based integration of climate change, enhanced CO2, disturbance from fire, and management actions at regional scales are extremely limited. Here, we examine the…
Person:
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: forests, carbon balance, greenhouse gas emissions, climate mitigation

Background: In Western Australia, the issue of bushfires (wildfires) poses a persistent health risk to both volunteer and career forestry firefighters, populations that have been historically understudied.Aims: This descriptive qualitative study aimed to examine firefighters’…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Fire Prevention, Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bushfire, decontamination, firefighters, PPE - Personal Protective Equipment, smoke exposure, social dynamics, socioecological model, volunteer firefighter, wildfires

Background: Tropical savannas represent a large proportion of the area burnt each year globally, with growing evidence that management to curtail fire frequency and intensity in some of these regions can contribute to mitigation of climate change. Approximately 25% of Australia’…
Person:
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, carbon accounting, FullCAM, mortality, litterfall, savannas, standing dead trees

Ecosystem services (ES) were conceived to emphasize the role of ecological processes in supporting societal needs and to allow their inclusion in the decision-making process. Currently climate change mitigation is one of the most important services ecosystems can provide to…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: C - carbon, wildfire, ecosystem function, DGVM - Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, climate change, ecosystem services, carbon sequestration

Global use of energy-inefficient mechanical vapor-compression air conditioning (AC) is increasing dramatically for home cooling. Direct evaporative coolers (EC) offer substantial energy savings, and may provide a sustainable alternative to AC for homes in hot, dry climates. One…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, fine particulate matter, evaporative cooler, indoor environmental quality, air quality, air pollution, Utah

Lesson Overview: In this activity, students learn about 3 concepts: the nature of smoke from wildland fires (through a technical reading), the ways in which smoke disperses into the atmosphere (through a demonstration and presentations), and some of the ways in which people can…
Person:
Year: 2018
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, health impacts, smoke dispersion

Lesson Overview: From a lab demonstration or video, students learn how smoke disperses (or doesn’t), depending on atmospheric conditions. They learn how smoke affects visibility and human health, especially if it sticks around for days or weeks instead of dispersing into the…
Person:
Year: 2018
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: smoke dispersion, human health, visibility

Wildfires, prescribed burns, and agricultural burns all impact ambient air quality across the Western U.S.; however, little is known about how communities across the region are differentially exposed to smoke from each of these fire types. To address this gap, we quantify smoke…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, agricultural burning, public health, PM2.5, SVI - Social Vulnerability Index

Background and aims: To assess development of a robust emissions accounting framework for expansive miombo woodland savannas covering ~2 million  km2 of southern Africa that typically are burnt under relatively severe late dry season (LDS) conditions.Methods: A detailed site-…
Person:
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: carbon markets, emission factors, fire management, fuel accumulation, fuel combustion, greenhouse gases, Miombo, Africa

Background: Over the last four decades, wildfires in forests of the continental western United States have significantly increased in both size and severity after more than a century of fire suppression and exclusion. Many of these forests historically experienced frequent fire…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: firefighter, forest resilience, Indigenous burning, lightning ignited fires, wildfire smoke