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During the summer of 1995, especially between June and mid July, extensive wildfires occurred throughout Canada, primarily north of 55 degrees N latitude. A previous report used aircraft and surface observations and tracer simulations to show these fires strongly influenced CO…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, wildfires, air pollution, CO - carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, ozone
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on air quality can assist land, fire, and air resource managers with fire and smoke planning, and their efforts to explain to others the science behind fire-related program policies and practices to improve air quality.…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, wildfire, biomass emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke dispersion, smoke management, biomass, burning permits, chemistry, combustion, cover, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, flame length, fuel management, health factors, heat effects, land management, NFP - National Fire Plan, O3 - ozone, particulates, pollution, public information, roads, smoke effects, soil management, soils, wildland fire
Fuel reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management sufficiently to provide effective responses to the questions, objections, and concerns of wildland-urban interface (WUI) homeowners. This study's…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: public opinion, aesthetics, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire hazard, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire management planning, fire protection, fire suppression, firebreak, flammability, Florida, forest management, fuel management, geography, GIS - geographic information system, health factors, human caused fires, hunting, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Lake States, land management, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, logging, Michigan, mowing, national forests, natural resource legislation, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, private lands, public information, recreation, regulations, sampling, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, site treatments, smoke effects, state forests, statistical analysis, trees, understory vegetation, wildlife habitat management, wildfires
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Arizona
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality
The MODIS instrument on the NASA Terra satellite has been conducting routine global measurements of active fires and aerosol optical depths since late 2000. Currently, it takes more than 4 days to acquire MODIS data from the NASA DAAC Center, making it difficult to use the…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, fire detection, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: aerosols, trace gas emissions, biomass burning
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: trace gas emissions, biomass burning, aerosol particles
Although the boreal forest in Siberia, Russia contains approximately one-fourth of the world's terrestrial biomass, emissions data from biomass burning in Siberia is scarce. Five experimental fires of varying intensity were conducted in Central Siberia in 2000 and 2001. The…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Siberia, trace gas emissions
Other than land clearing for urban development (Wear and others 1998), no disturbance is more common in southern forests than fire. The pervasive role of fire predates human activity in the South (Komarek 1964, 1974), and humans magnified that role. Repeating patterns of fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
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In many oak-dominated forests in the northeastern U.S. oak regeneration is poor and prescribed fire is assumed to benefit oak seedlings compared to fire sensitive species. However, the mechanisms and effectiveness remain poorly documented. We examined the effects of single and…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Acer rubrum, biomass, carbon dioxide, fire frequency, fire sensitive plants, foliage, forest management, hardwood forests, Kentucky, leaves, light, N - nitrogen, openings, overstory, photography, photosynthesis, pioneer species, plant growth, population density, regeneration, roots, seedlings, understory vegetation, water
We report measurements of molecular and carbon isotopic compositions of Malaysian atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in smoke haze from the 1997 Indonesian forest fire. Comparison of the carbon isotopic compositions (d13C) of individual PAHs from the smoke haze…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, hydrocarbons, pollution, Malaysia, Asia, fire management, forest management, smoke management, tropical forests, aerosols, atmospheric PAHs, compound-specific d13C, source identification, tropic forest fires
We argue that sequestering of carbon waste is inherently more efficient and will probably cost less than using the carbon for biomass burning. The ratio of carbon emitted per unit of primary energy released through combustion, C/E, favors sequestration for fundamental reasons of…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, chemistry, combustion, community ecology, cropland fires, energy, fire management, forest products, CH4 - methane, Netherlands, O - oxygen, site treatments, statistical analysis, water, wood
Concern about the risk of harmful human-induced climate change has resulted in international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. We review the international and national context for consideration of greenhouse abatement in native vegetation management…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, biomass, C - carbon, cover, gases, climate change, hardwood forests, land use, plantations, Queensland, rangelands, climate change, Kyoto Protocol, land use change, carbon stocks, sequestration, biomass burning, clearing
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, coniferous forests, conifers, deciduous forests, disturbance, fire growth, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firebreaks, forest management, fuel accumulation, gases, health factors, human caused fires, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, CH4 - methane, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, Kyoto Protocol, fire suppression and biodiversity
From the Conclusion (p.294-295) ... 'The average rate and intensity of forest burning and deforestation can be expected to increase as previously burned forest area expands. A positive feedback exists between forest fires, future fire susceptibility, fuel loading, and fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Amazon, biomass, Brazil, C - carbon, crown scorch, deforestation, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, flame length, fuel loading, land use, landscape ecology, litter, logging, mortality, overstory, rate of spread, remote sensing, scrub, South America, tropical forests
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, chemistry, combustion, conifers, fossils, Greenland, hydrocarbons, precipitation, statistical analysis
From the text...'fire management cannot be the same in the interface as in rural areas. In the South, a vast majority of land is privately owned. A dense road network in the interface provides many firebreaks; but it also brings people into forests. In the West, on the other…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, bibliographies, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, conservation, conservation easements, Dendroctonus frontalis, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, firing techniques, Florida, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, fuel appraisal, Georgia, climate change, health factors, ignition, insects, land management, land use, liability, lightning, logging, national forests, natural resource legislation, pine forests, Pinus, plant diseases, Porthetria dispar, private lands, public information, recreation, roads, runoff, smoke management, suppression, urban habitats, Virginia, water, water quality, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
Tropical peatlands are one of the largest near-surface reserves of terrestrial organic carbon, and hence their stability has important implications for climate change. In their natural state, lowland tropical peatlands support a luxuriant growth or peat swamp forest overlying…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, Borneo, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, clearcutting, combustion, distribution, drainage, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire injuries (plants), GIS - geographic information system, GPS - global positioning system, grasslands, Indonesia, Kalimantan, land use, landscape ecology, logging, mosaic, peat, peatlands, post fire recovery, remote sensing, shrublands, Southeast Asia, swamps, tropical forests, wildfires
Black carbon (BC) may be a major component of riverine carbon exported to the ocean, but its flux from large rivers is unknown. Furthermore, the global distribution of BC between natural and anthropogenic sources remains uncertain. We have determined BC concentrations in…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Arkansas, biomass, C - carbon, combustion, distribution, drainage, hydrocarbons, Louisiana, Mississippi, peat fires, rivers, runoff, sedimentation, soil management, soils, vegetation surveys, water, water quality, watershed management, watersheds
The longleaf pine ecosystem is one of the most biologically diverse in North America, supporting hundreds of plant and animal species. Because of its timber and many non-timber benefits, there is strong interest among forestry professionals, conservation groups, and the public…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, cavity nesting birds, coastal plain, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, forest management, climate change, habitat conversion, land use, logging, longleaf pine, natural resource legislation, nutrient cycling, old growth forests, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, plant communities, plantations, private lands, rural communities, slash, slash pine, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildlife habitat management
Shallow soil cores from 56 localities along the crest of the Colorado Front Range were processed by water flotation and wet sieving, then examined for wood charcoal and charred conifer-needle fragments. Charred particles were largest and most numerous in samples from the…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies spp., age classes, archaeological sites, C - carbon, char, charcoal, Colorado, conifers, crown fires, ecotones, elevation, forest management, litter, montane forests, mosaic, needles, overstory, particulates, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus flexilis, Populus tremuloides, remote sensing, sampling, soils, subalpine forests, surface fires, tundra, vegetation surveys, water, wildfires, wind, wood
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, biomass, C - carbon, Europe, experimental fires, fire management, Germany, hydrocarbons, hydrogen, N - nitrogen, temperature, stable carbon isotope ratios, biomass burning, atmospheric emissions, nonmethane hydrocarbons, methyl chloride
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, coastal vegetation, decomposition, fire intensity, fynbos, leaves, Leucospermum, litter, mountains, N - nitrogen, photosynthesis, post fire recovery, range management, sclerophyll vegetation, soil nutrients, South Africa, volatilization, wildfires