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Background: The record number of wildfires in the United States in recent years has led to an increased focus on developing tools to accurately forecast their impacts at high spatial and temporal resolutions.
Aims: The Warn-on-Forecast System for Smoke (WoFS-Smoke) was developed…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: data assimilation, ensemble, GOES-R, NWP - numerical weather prediction, probabilistic forecasting, smoke forecasting, weather radar, wildfires, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas
Global climate change and extreme weather has a profound impact on wildfire, and it is of great importance to explore wildfire patterns in the context of global climate change for wildfire prevention and management. In this paper, a wildfire spatial prediction model based on…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire management, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, convolutional neural network, area burned
Rationale: Wildfires are increasing in intensity, duration, and frequency with smoke plums affecting the lives of millions over large geographic areas. The immune modulatory effects of wildfire smoke are unclear. We previously showed that a major wildfire smoke component, ozone…
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Year: 2024
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: COVID-19, public health, air quality
Starting from point sources, wildfire smoke is important in the global aerosol system. The ability to characterize smoke near-source is key to modeling smoke dispersion and predicting air quality. With hemispheric views and 10-min refresh, imagers in Geostationary (GEO) orbit…
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Year: 2024
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: remote sensing, air quality, smoke dispersion, MAS (MODIS Airborne Simulator), FIREX‐AQ - Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality
The vertical distribution of biomass burning aerosol (BBA) is important in regulating their impacts on weather and climate. The plume-rise process affects the injection height of BBA and interacts with the air parcel lifting and cloud processes. However, these processes are not…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: E3SM - Energy Exascale Earth System Model, aerosol radiative effects, fire plumes, fire size
An inventory of particulate matter and air toxic emissions from prescribed fires in the USA for 1989
This report documents a prescribed fire emissions inventory developed using consistent methodology for each of the 50 states of the USA for calendar year 1989. Emissions of particulate matter, selected toxic compounds, and a few other carbon-containing compounds are estimated.…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emissions inventory, particulate matter, fuel complexes, toxic compounds, emission factors
From the text...'Big gaps still exist in the understanding of fire ecology, especially the seasonal aspects. Fire can have profoundly different effects on soil, plants and animals depending on when it occurs. Oftentimes the most ecological gain comes from burning during the…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire adaptations (plants), fire equipment, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, general interest, grasslands, headfires, invasive species, land management, liability, mopping up, Native Americans, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, pine forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, public information, Sequoiadendron giganteum , smoke effects, surface fires, Tall Timbers Research Station, tallgrass prairies, topography, vegetation surveys
We develop a simple analytical model to estimate the thickness of a smoke layer formed by a plume of a large area fire and to account for crosswinds. We take advantage of the dominant flow features in the upper part of the rising plume and in the smoke layer far from the plume…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, decay, dust, humidity, nuclear winter, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, wind
From the text...'The new Mississippi statute on prescribed burning activities is welcome by the forestry community. The act recognizes prescribed burning as an important property right and land management tool that greatly benefits society, the environment and the economy of the…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, land management, liability, Mississippi, natural resource legislation, pine forests, private lands, regeneration, site treatments
Mechanized full-tree logging is the preferred harvesting system in Northeastern Ontario. These operations typically involve roadside delimbing, producing large quantities of slash at roadsides and landings. Slash pile burning involves gathering the slash into concentrated areas…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: artificial regeneration, biomass, Canada, combustion, duff, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire suppression, firing techniques, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel arrangement, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, hunting, ignition, lightning caused fires, logging, Ontario, rate of spread, recreation, regeneration, season of fire, seeds, shrubs, site treatments, slash, smoke management, wildfires, wind
Discarded automobile tires have become a concern to the general public, largely because the growing number of stockpile fires has focused attention on the potentially harmful combustion products as well as products of incomplete combustion (PICs) emitted into the atmosphere from…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, ash, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, field experimental fires, fire suppression, foam, gases, hydrocarbons, incendiary fires, organic matter, particulates, pollution, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, Virginia, zinc
Traditionally, in the Southwest, ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) red slash has not been treated with fire to meet resource objectives until all slash has fully cured, usually a 2-to-4-year wait. Waiting for slash to cure is still the widespread practice on most forests in the…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: crown scorch, duff, fine fuels, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, logging, mopping up, multiple resource management, national forests, New Mexico, Pinus ponderosa, precipitation, resprouting, site treatments, slash, smoke management
Torreya taxifolia, torreya, is a narrowly restricted endemic conifer confined to mesic ravines along the east shore of the Apalachicola River in the panhandle of Florida During the 1950's, torreya suffered a catastrophic decline. This decline is thought to have been caused by…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Apalachicola Bluffs, Apalachicola River, fire exclusion, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fungi, germination, light, longleaf pine, mortality, needles, north Florida, photosynthesis, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, slash, slash pine, succession, Torreya, Torreya taxifolia, trees
Changing climate and land use appear to importantly affect the biosphere by way of impacts on fire regimes. Feedback effects on climate and air quality are likely through emissions of trace gases, aerosols, and particulates that affect radiation budgets, stability of the…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, boreal forests, charcoal, fire injuries (plants), fire regimes, gases, land use, particulates, pine forests, radiation, savannas, trees, Wisconsin
G.M. Byram's energy criterion for forest and wildland fires consists of two equations: one for computing the rate of flow of kinetic energy in the atmosphere due to the wind field (Pw), and one for estimating the rate of conversion of thermal energy to kinetic energy in the…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: convection column, buoyancy, blowup fires, energy conversion
Unpublished final report to the USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR.
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Year: 1993
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: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke dispersion, smoke management, model assessment
Regulations relating to the Clean Air Act requirement that Federal actions conform to the appropriate state, tribal, or federal implementation plan for attaining clean air.
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, final rule, general conformity
Fire fighters in Canada's navy must undergo regular training with fires from simulated helicopter crashes. Visible emissions from these fires often create health concerns in surrounding communities. This paper presents air quality implications of plume dispersion associated with…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical elements, experimental areas, field experimental fires, fire danger rating, fire suppression, gases, hydrocarbons, hydrogen, N - nitrogen, smoke effects, wind
'With reference to 'Holiday Highlands Prescribed Burn' (by Peggy Lantz, FN Winter '92), I fail to understand what was accomplished. Why do we need to 'open up the canopy' by removing trees that are already established and performing their function of providing wildlife food and…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida stricta, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, central Florida, energy, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, Florida, fuel management, gases, general interest, Gopherus polyphemus, hardwood hammocks, heat, human caused fires, humus, lightning caused fires, logging, nutrients, organic matter, overstory, O - oxygen, Pinus palustris, Pituophis melanoleucus, plant nutrients, plantations, pollution, Quercus, sandhills, seedlings, soil organic matter, succession, trees, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges, wood