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Fire is an integral Earth System process that interacts with climate in multiple ways. Here we assessed the parametrization of fires in the Community Land Model (CLM-CN) and improved the ability of the model to reproduce contemporary global patterns of burned areas and fire…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, C - carbon, deforestation, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, fuel loading, ignition, land management, land use, population density, remote sensing, season of fire, South America, suppression, wildfires, wood

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

The present paper proposes an original approach to estimate gaseous and particulate emissions from boreal forest fires based on the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction ( FBP) System. The FBP System permits calculation of fuel consumption and rate of spread for individual…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, distribution, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, forest management, gases, greenhouse gases, headfires, organic matter, particulates, precipitation, Quebec, rate of spread, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires, air quality, black carbon, climate change, greenhouse gas, particulate matter

Emissions of atmospheric pollutants from vegetation fires can greatly affect local and regional air quality. The near real-time information on the magnitude of fires, the amount of pollutants emitted, and their impact on air quality is critical to fire managers* decisions to…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Africa, air quality, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, digital data collection, experimental fires, field experimental fires, fire management, fire regimes, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, moisture, overstory, pollution, remote sensing, understory vegetation, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, NASA EOS

The increasing incidence, extent and severity of uncontrolled burning globally, together with its many adverse consequences, has brought fire into the international environmental policy arena, with growing calls for international action leading to greater control of burning,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, age classes, air quality, Asia, Australia, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, crown fires, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, land use, light, Mongolia, peatlands, pollutionpublic information, rainforests, rate of spread, remote sensing, Russia, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, South America, succession, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires

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

Ecosystem health and visibility degradation due to fine-mode atmospheric particles have been documented in remote areas and motivate particle characterization that can inform mitigation strategies. This study explores submicron (PM1) particle size, composition, and source…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, national parks, N - nitrogen, particulates, remote sensing, wind, Wyoming, fire management, forest management, smoke management, Organic Aerosol, source apportionment, secondary organic aerosol, biomass burning, background, organic nitrogen, aerosol mass spectrometer, positive matrix factorization

Fire performs many beneficial ecosystem functions in dry forests and rangelands across much of North America. In the last century, however, the role of fire has been dramatically altered by numerous anthropogenic factors acting as root causes of the current fire crisis,…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, ecological integrity, fire restoration, public lands, wildfire policy, age classes, bibliography, catastrophic fires, climatology, coniferous forests, conservation, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, fire management planning, fire regimes, forest fragmentation, forest types, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel management, grazing, introduced species, invasive species, landscape ecology, livestock, logging, natural resource legislation, old growth forest, plant communities, post-fire recovery, public information, riparian habitats, roads, salvage, animal species diversity, plant species diversity, succession, suppression, thinning, weed control, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife refuges

From the Conclusion ... 'An ecological review on air pollution as a whole, and in particular the relationship of control burning to such possible pollution warrants the following conclusions: (1) In spite of the tremendous amounts of pollutant materials released into the…
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, bibliographies, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, education, gases, histories, lightning, lightning caused fires, national forests, N - nitrogen, particulates, pollution, public information, smoke management, US Forest Service, urban habitats, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management