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Land managers need a tool to accurately and efficiently estimate the biomass of hand-piled fuels as pile burning becomes a more widespread and common method for treating high fire hazard areas with heavy surface fuels. Past pile characterization research dealt only with large,…
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Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, biomass estimates, Consume 3.0, woody fuel loading
A 5-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. An example of smoke management practices from Kentucky. Note: This presentation is an excerpt from a previous recording and…
Person: Lahm
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, prescribed fire councils, Kentucky, smoke management plan
A 39-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation describes North Carolina's smoke management program, the process of progressing from a voluntary smoke…
Person: Curcio
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, North Carolina, particulate matter (PM) concentrations, smoke management program
A 27-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation explains Arizona's Enhanced Smoke Management Program, the reasons for its development, and offers an…
Person: Sherron
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, Arizona, haze, smoke management program
A 29-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation provides an overview of the need for managing for air quality in Arkansas, the elements of their smoke…
Person: McCorkle
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, Clean Air Act, non-attainment area, ozone, PM - particulate matter, smoke management, Arkansas, fine particles, smoke management plan
A 26-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. Describes Ohio's approaches to smoke management, fire laws, current fire and air qualities, issues, measures to address these…
Person: Bowden
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, non-attainment area, prescribed fire councils, smoke management, Ohio, Basic Smoke Management Practices
A 36-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. A presentation describing a progressive approach and overreaching principles of smoke management. Also covers the development…
Person: Lahm
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission reduction, non-attainment area, smoke management, smoke management program, exceptional event
A 38-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation describes the purpose of Rx fire councils, provides an introduction to the Oklahoma (OK) prescribed Fire…
Person: O'Meilia
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire weather, prescribed fire councils, smoke dispersion
A 38-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation explains the regulations states must consider in developing their smoke management programs, definition…
Person: Sharp
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Clean Air Act, climate change, haze, ozone, smoke management, smoke management program, exceptional event, public safety
A 47-minute presentation recorded in February 2009 as part of Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation describes fire activity and emission inventories, common sources of error in modeling and examples of…
Person: O'Neill
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Gaussian Dispersion Models, non-attainment area, smoke behavior, dispersion models, trace gases, atmospheric chemistry, SMARTFIRE, EI - Emission Inventory
A 13-minute presentation recorded in February 2009 as part of Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation explains the effect of smoke on light and visibility and gives several examples of smoke affected view-…
Person: Wickman
Year: 2009
Type: Media
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: light, aerosols, Clean Air Act, particle size, visibility, light scattering coefficient
A 13-minute presentation recorded in February 2009 as part of Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment. This presentation defines and describes the constituents of smoke which impact human health. An example of wildland fire smoke…
Person: Wickman
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ozone, PM - particulate matter, health effects, CO - carbon monoxide, pollutants, AQI - Air Quality Index
A 42-minute presentation recorded in February 2009 as part of Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment. It provides an Introduction to federal regulations which address smoke management in the context of wildland fire.
Person: George
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, Clean Air Act, haze, ozone, PM - particulate matter, public health, Emergency Episode Rule, AQI - Air Quality Index
A 50-minute presentation recorded in February 2009 as part of Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment. It briefly outlines the rules, policies, and guidance dictating smoke management. This presentation is still applicable, though some…
Person: Lahm
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, 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, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, air pollution, carbon sequestration, Clean Air Act, climate change, haze, non-attainment area, smoke management, wildfire emissions
From the Foreword ... 'This conference proceedings is also the best evidence of a grand, energetic conversation that the fires of 1988 launched. Among these many voices you will hear a tale much more complex than the saga of 1988 first revealed. It takes time to stand back far…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, Canada, C - carbon, charcoal, crown scorch, education, fire case histories, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, flame length, fuel management, fuel types, insects, landscape ecology, Mexico, mortality, national parks, nutrient cycling, overstory, public information, remote sensing, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
From the text ... 'Once again, advocates of prescribed burning are busy trying to educate both the public and bureaucrats. Lane Green, Tall Timbers' executive director, says a big challenge for land managers is explaining the short-term, long-term calculus of prescribed burning…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Beadel, H.L., brush, C - carbon, Colinus virginianus, conservation easements, education, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, forest management, game birds, hardwoods, hunting, land management, natural areas management, north Florida, particulates, pine forests, plantations, public information, Red Hills, seedlings, Smokey Bear program, Stoddard, H.L., Tall Timbers Research Station, understory vegetation, wildfires
Area burned is one of four primary parameters necessary for estimating biomass burning emissions, and it is a parameter than remains illusive, particularly if we include all area burned. In this report, we compare the intensive 2002 ground-based data for the western United…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, biomass, biomass burning, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, Colorado, ENSO, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, forest management, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, private lands, range management, rangelands, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, wildfires, Wyoming
Contemporary human activities such as tropical deforestation. Land clearing for agriculture, pest control and grassland management lead to biomass burning, which in turn leads to land-cover changes. However, biomass burning emissions are not correctly measured and the methods to…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, Brazil, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, cerrado, deforestation, energy, evolution, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, grasslands, moisture, pest control, radiation, rainforests, remote sensing, smoke effects, South America, statistical analysis, tropical forests, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, smoke aerosol emission coefficient, aerosol optical depth, biomass burning
Soil management causes changes in physical, chemical, and biological properties that consequently affect soil CO2 emission (FCO2). Here, we studied the soil carbon dynamics in areas with sugarcane production in southern Brazil under two different sugarcane management systems:…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Brazil, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, moisture, precipitation, slash and burn, soil management, soil moisture, soil temperature, South America, temperature, soil respiration, sugarcane management, geostatistic, soil properties
Carbon monoxide (CO), Ozone (O3) and Black Carbon (BC) aerosol mass concentrations in relation to planetary boundary layer (PBL) height measurements were analyzed from January-December, 2008 over tropical urban environment of Hyderabad, India. DMSP-OLS night-time satellite data…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Asia, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, India, ozone, pollution, remote sensing, season of fire, tropical regions, wildfires, wind, planetary boundary layer, black carbon, ozone and forest fires
Biomass burning is a major and growing contributor to particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 mm (PM2.5). Such impacts (especially individual impacts from each burning source) are quantified using the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model, a…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, C - carbon, combustion, cropland fires, fire management, Georgia, human caused fires, organic matter, particulates, season of fire, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wood
Africa is the single largest continental source of biomass burning emissions. Here we conduct the first analysis of one full year of geostationary active fire detections and fire radiative power data recorded over Africa at 15-min temporal interval and a 3 km sub-satellite…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, C - carbon, combustion, cover, cover type, croplands, deciduous forests, Europe, fire hazard reduction, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, pollution, savannas, shrublands, South America, statistical analysis
Studies of restoration ecology are well established for northern peatlands, but at an early stage for tropical peatlands. Extensive peatland areas in Southeast Asia have been degraded through deforestation, drainage and fire, leading to on- and off-site environmental and socio-…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, Borneo, C - carbon, community ecology, cover, deforestation, diameter classes, drainage, droughts, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, forbs, greenhouse gases, hydrology, Indonesia, Kalimantan, land use, moisture, peat, peatlands, population density, regeneration, savannas, seedlings, Southeast Asia, succession, tropical regions, vegetation surveys, water, watershed management, watersheds, wildfires, tropical peatland, restoration ecology, peatland degradation, land cover change, hydrology, greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable livelihoods
Urinary methoxyphenols (MPs) have been proposed as biomarkers of woodsmoke exposure. However, few field studies have been undertaken to evaluate the relationship between woodsmoke exposure and urinary MP concentrations. We conducted a pilot study at the US Forest Service-…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, diseases, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wood, biological monitoring, wood smoke, wildland firefighters, exposure assessment
Natural fires annually decimate up to 1% of the forested area in the boreal region of Quebec, and represent a major structuring force in the region, creating a mosaic of watersheds characterized by large variations in vegetation structure and composition. Here, we investigate…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Betula papyrifera, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, drainage, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, lakes, mosaic, nutrient cycling, nutrients, organic matter, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, Populus tremuloides, Populus trichocarpa, Quebec, succession, water, watershed management, watersheds, wildfires, boreal, carbon dioxide flux, forest fire, lakes, organic carbon, plankton respiration, watershed