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The dispersion of the plume from a sulphide smelter at Mount Isa, Australia, has been determined at distances of up to 1000km from the source. Simultaneous measurements by an airborne correlation spectrometer, flame photometer and aitken counter have allowed accurate…
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, Queensland, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wind
That the capacity of global models to predict the future can be well tested by their capacity to reconstruct past events is generally agreed, as is the definition of normal winter as the numerical equivalent of >5x103 degree-days (with the degrees in Fahrenheit). One-…
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, Asia, biomass, boreal forests, catastrophic fires, combustion, coniferous forests, crown fires, decay, dendrochronology, droughts, fire case histories, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire scar analysis, flammability, grasslands, humus, Larix, light, logging, nuclear winter, peat, radiation, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, Soviet Union, taiga, temperature, wildfires
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, gases, human caused fires, ignition, light, photography, radiation, rate of spread, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature
Smoke from raging fires produced in the aftermath of a major nuclear exchange has been predicted to cause large decreases in surface temperatures. However, the extent of the decrease and even the sign of the temperature change depend on how the smoke is distributed with altitude…
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: heat release rate, atmospheric stability, plume rise, wind speed, water vapor, nuclear explosions, smoke injection height
A numerical index that estimates the atmosphere's capacity to disperse smoke from prescribed burning is described. The physical assumptions and mathematical development of the index are given in detail. A preliminary interpretation of dispersion index values is offered. A…
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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: Gaussian Dispersion Models, smoke management, ventilation factor, air quality forecasting, Mesoscale, air pollution potential, Pasquill stability class, air pollution sources, air quality, smoke management
Publisher Summary: Coarse woody debris (CWD) is an important component of temperate stream and forest ecosystems. This chapter reviews the rates at which CWD is added and removed from ecosystems, the biomass found in streams and forests, and many functions that CWD serves. CWD…
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies amabilis, Alabama, Betula, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, Blarina brevicauda, Buprestidae, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, cavity nesting birds, Cerambycidae, chemistry, coastal forests, coniferous forests, decay, deciduous forests, decomposition, diameter classes, Diptera, distribution, disturbance, drainage, ecosystem dynamics, Fagus, fishes, Florida, fragmentation, gases, Georgia, hardwoods, heavy fuels, Hymenoptera, Illinois, Indiana, invertebrates, Larix occidentalis, leaching, Lepidoptera, Liriodendron tulipifera, litter, logging, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, montane forests, mortality, Mustela, New England, nitrogen fixation, North Carolina, North Dakota, nutrient cycling, Oregon, organic matter, O - oxygen, Parus, Peromyscus, Picea, Picea engelmannii, Picea sitchensis, Pinus contorta, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Populus tremuloides, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus, Quercus prinus, rainforests, riparian habitats, rivers, Scolytidae, sedimentation, Sequoia sempervirens, size classes, sloping terrain, small mammals, snags, Sorex, stand characteristics, streams, temperate forests, Tennessee, Texas, Thuja, tropical forests, Tsuga canadensis, Tsuga heterophylla, Virginia, Washington, water quality, West Virginia, wildfires, windthrows, woody fuels, Zapus
From the text... 'The energy crisis cannot be alleviated at the expense of ecology: vet, denying problems inherent to economic development, such as those of establishing nuclear power plants, is sheer romanticism.. instead, ecologists should provide alternative solutions to the…
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: Africa, Australia, biomass, catastrophic fires, Chile, energy, Europe, fire damage (property), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, grazing, Greece, herbaceous vegetation, livestock, magnesium, Mediterranean habitats, mining, N - nitrogen, plantations, pollution, post fire recovery, K - potassium, South Africa, South America, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires, woody plants
Prescribed fire is a valuable tool utilized in the management of wildlife habitat, range, forestry, watershed, fuels, and fire dependent vegetation communities. Although most impacts are beneficial, some adverse impacts must be mitigated. Specificially, air quality, water qulity…
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Logistics, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, backfires, brush, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chaparral, combustion, crown scorch, disturbance, escape cover, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, firebreaks, firing techniques, fuel management, headfires, hydrocarbons, land management, low intensity burns, mortality, multiple resource management, N - nitrogen, particulates, plant communities, plant physiology, pollution, post-fire recovery, rate of spread, riparian habitats, runoff, season of fire, sedimentation, site treatments, smoke effects, soil erosion, soil management, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soils, streamflow, streams, threatened and endangered species (plants), topography, vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, water, water quality, water repellent soils, watershed management, watersheds, wildlife
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, biomass, burning intervals, burning permits, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, computer programs, conifers, decay, diameter classes, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, firing techniques, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, hardwoods, herbicides, humus, ignition, logging, moisture, multiple resource management, national forests, Oregon, organic soils, particulates, pine, post fire recovery, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, season of fire, slash, slash and burn, smoke management, statistical analysis, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, woody fuels
Several receptor modeling techniques are used to identify sources contributing to concentrations of air pollutants at receptor sites that degrade air quality. Potassium and carbon content of the fine particulate matter are the primary indicators for smoke from slash fires in…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, PM - particulate matter, trace gas emissions, smoke characteristics, source apportionment, C - carbon, chemistry, chlorine, coniferous forests, energy, fire intensity, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, logging, particulates, pollution, K - potassium, sampling, slash, statistical analysis
Experimental, free-burning wood fires larger than 5 ha were similar in convection column volume after the initial buoyant, ring-vortex rose from the ground. The fire generated strong vorticity patterns which propagated upward into the convection column. The rotation suppressed…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: chaparral, combustion, convection, field experimental fires, fine fuels, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fuel arrangement, gases, hydrocarbons, ignition, Juniperus, O - oxygen, pine forests, Pinus, radiation, smoke behavior, southern California, temperature, wind, wood