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Many large grass fires occurred in north Texas and southern Oklahoma on 9 April 2009, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses and burning thousands of acres of grasslands, producing large smoke and debris plumes that were visible from various remote sensing platforms. At the…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: satellite observations, radar observations, remote sensing, fire detection, grass fire
From the text ... 'It's a continual process to educate the legislature, and we need to continually educate the public. Florida has almost 18 million people and every day we get -- or we used to get -- about 900 new people per day moving in from the North. That's slowed way down…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, agriculture, air quality, education, liability, public information, Florida, fire management, forest management, smoke management, land management
From the text ... 'Summary: Air quality regulations are getting more stringent. We need to be involved in writing those regulations. We must be experts on the impact of our emissions, and we must be leaders rather than followers. If a state starts to develop a prescribed burning…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, education, health factors, hydrocarbons, public information, fire management, forest management, smoke management
From the text ... 'Because fire was such an important historic disturbance and is a large component in understanding regional differences in emissions, it is analogous to an elephant in the closet. One can think of fire frequency as the elephant. That is, it is an issue that is…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire frequency, fuel accumulation, smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, public information, fire management, smoke management
Air pollution causes significant excess mortality and health effects. Action plans required by the EU legislation should optimally account for the complex interactions of population distributions, time-activity and the sources of air pollution. This paper presents FUMAPEX study…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, distribution, particulates, pollution, Finland, Europe, fire management, urban habitats, population exposure, exposure distribution, air pollution, particulate matter, PM2.5, long-range transportation, inversion, wildfire, action plan, policy, air quality, Helsinki, Finland, exposure modelling
Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) may curb carbon emissions, but the consequences for fire hazard are poorly understood. By analyzing satellite-derived deforestation and fire data from the Brazilian Amazon, we show that fire occurrence has increased in…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire hazard, land management, deforestation, Amazon, Brazil
As required by HB09-1199, Section 25-7-111(5)(a-d) Colorado Revised Statutes, the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division (Air Division) of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has drafted a report to evaluate its Smoke Management Program (SMP) and provide…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, Colorado, air pollution reduction, smoke management program, public comment
This document provides a list of publications produced by the Pacific Southwest Research Station from July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010. It includes series publications, science perspectives, and journal articles and other publications. The topics covered include all aspects of…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Social Science, Aquatic
Region(s): California, Hawaii
Keywords: US Forest Service, publications, research publications
Recent changes in air quality regulations present a potential obstacle to continued use of prescribed fire as a land management tool. Lowering of the acceptable daily concentration of particulate matter from 65 to 35 μg/m3 will bring much closer scrutiny of prescribed burning…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, South Carolina, fuel consumption, age classes, backing fire, coastal plain, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire models, firing techniques, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, headfires, ignition, land management, litter, particulates, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plantations, savannas, SFP - Southern Fire Portal
Revision to 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: 2010
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
On April 5, 2010, EPA finalized revisions to the 1993 General Conformity Rule. This 1993 rule was established to comply with the Clean Air Act (Section 176(C)(1)) requirements that federal actions must conform to a state, tribal, or federal implementation plan (SIP, TIP, or FIP…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: EPA - Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air Act, general conformity, wildfires, land management
Atmospheric CO2 has more than doubled since the last glacial maximum (LGM) and could double again within this century, largely due to anthropogenic activity. It has been suggested that low [CO2] contributed to reduced tree cover in savanna and grassland biomes at LGM, and that…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Acacia karroo, Acacia nilotica, Africa, Australia, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, cover, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, flame length, forest management, grasses, grasslands, herbivory, photosynthesis, plant growth, resprouting, roots, savannas, seedlings, Themeda, Themeda triandra, trees, wildfires, woody plants, elevated CO2, Last Glacial Maximum, root, savanna, starch
The tropical peat swamp forests of Indonesia and Malaysia are unusual ecosystems that are rich in endemic species of flora, fauna and microbes despite their extreme acidic, anaerobic, nutrient poor conditions. They are an important refuge for many endangered species including…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Aquatic
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, algae, Asia, bacteria, C - carbon, cover, decomposition, disturbance, drainage, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fishes, flammability, forest management, herbivory, hydrology, Indonesia, invertebrates, leaves, litter, logging, Malaysia, microorganisms, nutrient cycling, overstory, peat, peat bogs, peat fires, peatlands, roots, sclerophyll vegetation, Sumatra, swamps, tropical forests, water, watershed management, wildlife, bacteria, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, hydrology, Indonesia, Malaysia, microbial communities, peat fires, tropical forests
Carbon sequestration by forested ecosystems offers a potential climate change mitigation benefit. However, wildfire has the potential to reverse this benefit. In the western United States, climate change and land management practices have led to increases in wildfire intensity…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, Abies grandis, air quality, Arizona, biomass, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, Colorado, combustion, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, flame length, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, Idaho, land management, LANDFIRE, Montana, mortality, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, overstory, Pinus contorta, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, Utah, Washington, wildfires, Wyoming
Particulate matter (PM) emitted from biomass burning and wildfire has been an air quality concern in affected areas such as dense population conters. Because of regulatory requirements, airborne particles smaller than 32.5 µm (PM2.5) are of special concern. Controversy has…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biomass burning, fire hazard reduction, wildfires, air quality, air temperature, C - carbon, N - nitrogen, particulates, sampling, S - sulfur, understory vegetation, Pinus taeda, loblolly pine, Okefenokee Swamp, north Florida, Georgia, fire management, forest management, smoke management, coniferous forests, pine forests, biomass burning, chemical signature, PM2.5, smoke wildfire
We analyze detailed atmospheric gas/aerosol composition data acquired during the 2008 NASA ARCTAS (Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites) airborne campaign performed at high northern latitudes in spring (ARCTAS-A) and summer (ARCTAS-B…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Great Basin, Northwest, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Arctic, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, chemistry, Europe, fire frequency, climate change, greenhouse gases, N - nitrogen, ozone, pollution, radiation, research, Siberia, smoke management, wildfires, arctic pollution, ozone, aerosols, greenhouse gases, wild fires
The frequency of fires in the Okavango Delta seasonal floodplains peaked at an intermediate frequency of flooding. Floodplains are commonly burnt every 3-5 years. This study showed fundamental changes in ecosystem properties due to burning. A burnt seasonal floodplain in the…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Aquatic
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, biomass, Botswana, fire frequency, fire management, fishes, floods, litter, CH4 - methane, N - nitrogen, nutrients, O - oxygen, remote sensing, water, watershed management, wetlands, wildfires, seasonal floodplain, flood pulse, macrophyte, Okavango Delta, nutrients, zooplankton biomass, fish productivity
We used satellite-derived estimates of global fire emissions and a chemical transport model to estimate atmospheric nitrogen (N) fluxes from savanna and deforestation fires in tropical ecosystems. N emissions and reactive N deposition led to a net transport of N equatorward,…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, Amazon, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, C - carbon, combustion, Congo, deforestation, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, fuel management, human caused fires, N - nitrogen, remote sensing, savannas, slash, slash and burn, soils, South America, Southeast Asia, tropical forests, volatilization, wildfires, atmospheric transport, biomass burning, global carbon cycle, Hadley circulation, nitrogen limitation, pyrodenitrification
Woody plant increase in grassy biomes has been widely reported over the last century. Increases have been attributed to local drivers associated with land use change, such as heavy grazing or fire suppression, or, controversially, to global drivers such as increased atmospheric…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, browse, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, conservation, cover, croplands, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, grasslands, grazing, land use, N - nitrogen, photography, plant growth, population density, range management, regeneration, savannas, South Africa, suppression, wildfires, woody plants, biome switch, global drivers, land use practices, local drivers, thicket expansion
On January 6, 2010, the EPA proposed to strengthen the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone. EPA also proposed an accelerated implementation schedule as part of this Rule. The primary standard is designed to protect public health and the proposal…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, O3 - ozone, ozone, EPA - Environmental Protection Agency, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, VOC - volatile organic compounds, N - nitrogen, non-attainment area