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From the text ... 'Today, land managers use controlled or 'prescribed' burning to improve wildlife habitat and reduce the risk of dangerous fires. Wildfire, on the other hand, can threaten life and property of both people and wildlife especially when it occurs with little notice…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, forest management, humidity, lightning caused fires, smoke management, soil moisture, wildfires, wildlife, wind
On the morning of 2 June 2002, an abandoned campfire grew into a wildfire in the Double Trouble State Park in east-central New Jersey, USA. The wildfire burned 526 ha (1300 acres) and forced the closure of the Garden State Parkway for several hours due to dense smoke. In…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air temperature, backfires, dead fuels, evolution, fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire growth, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, fuel moisture, humidity, New Jersey, rate of spread, recreation related fires, state parks, statistical analysis, wildfires, wind, fire-weather forecasting, Double Trouble State Park, meteorological factors
From the text ... 'In protected areas, where wilderness values are paramount, public land agencies have adopted the policy of using wildfires to benefit natural resources, allowing naturally ignited fires to burn unless they present additional threats, such as fire rick to…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fuel management, land management, national parks, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'It may be that a new dialogue is needed between those who advocate education and social sciences investigations on fire and those who advocate air quality and health science concerned with fire smoke.'
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire management, forest management, fuel management, health factors, pollution, public information, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, wildfires
From the text ... 'Forty-eight hours into the costliest wildfire in Colorado's history, Mike Tombolato turned to his computer for answers on what to do next.The wind-driven blaze was fast approaching the city of Boulder....That's where fire models developed at the U.S. Forest…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air temperature, Colorado, dendrochronology, ENSO, fire damage (property), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, greenhouse gases, histories, insects, laboratory fires, Montana, plant diseases, pollution, rate of spread, remote sensing, season of fire, stand characteristics, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind
From the text ... 'The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) is a new Web-based system designed to integrate science and technology in support of risk-informed decisionmaking for wildland fires. ... WFDSS replaces three past wildland fire decision analysis and…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, fire management, GIS, particulates, smoke management, wildfires, wind
Four conditions are necessary for fire to assume ecological importance: 1) an accumulation of organic matter, i.e. fuel either herbaceous or woody, sufficient enough to burn; 2) dry weather conditions to render the material combustible; 3) a landscape conducive to the spread of…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, relative humidity, winds, fuel moisture, smoke management, fire frequency, fire season
Pre-season climate and weather variables indicate a moderate to high chance of a near average wildfire season in Washington and an above average season for Oregon. During this webinar, we’ll explore the factors that make up this outlook, define what a normal fire season looks…
Person: Clark
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: 2018 fire season, fire severity, fire forecasting, rainfall, snowpack, fire potential, fire regimes
Fire in California’s Ecosystems describes fire in detail—both as an integral natural process in the California landscape and as a growing threat to urban and suburban developments in the state. Written by many of the foremost authorities on the subject, this comprehensive volume…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics
In 2017, the dominant greenhouse gases released into Earth’s atmosphere—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide— reached new record highs. The annual global average carbon dioxide concentration at Earth’s surface for 2017 was 405.0 ± 0.1 ppm, 2.2 ppm greater than for 2016 and…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, wildfires, fire activity
In favorable atmospheric conditions, fires can produce pyrocumulonimbus cloud (pyroCb) in the form of deep convective columns resembling conventional thunderstorms, which may be accompanied by strong inflow, dangerous downbursts, and lightning strikes that can produce dangerous…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: clouds, pyrocumulus, thermodynamics, pyro-cumulus clouds, wildfires, smoke plumes, Australia
Fire managers use prescribed fire and some wildfires to meet resource management objectives, like restoring and maintaining ecological processes, watershed function, and wildlife habitat, as well as to reduce fuels and mitigate the risk of severe wildfires. However, public…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke impacts, air quality, remote sensing, human dimensions of wildland fire, wildfires, fire management, public perception, WFAQRP - Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program, ARA - Air Resource Advisor
Fast-moving wildfires can result in substantial losses of infrastructure, property and life. During such events, real-time intelligence is critical for managing firefighting activities and public safety. The ability of fixed-site weather radars to detect the plumes from fires…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: bushfire, detection, rain radar, wildland fire, firefighting, Australia, fire management, fire growth
Weather is an important factor that determines smoke development, which is essential information for planning smoke field measurements. This study identifies the synoptic systems that would favor to produce the desired smoke plumes for the Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildland fire, smoke plume, drainage, superfog, field campaign, FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment
The Twelfth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, was held 15-18 May 2018 at the Boise Centre, downtown Boise, Idaho. It was concurrently held with the…
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Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire meteorology, forest meteorology, meteorology, meteorology and smoke
With rising temperatures, future droughts and subsequent extreme fire weather forecasted, how will management, carbon storage and emissions and fire severity interact?
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: CFSC - California Fire Science Consortium, C - carbon, climate change, extreme fire weather, fire exclusion, fire management, NEE - net ecosystem exchange, Sierra Nevada
These presentations highlight existing wildfire forecasting tools, especially resources that can be used by communities to aid in preparedness efforts. Speakers discuss existing tools and provide examples of their use in communities or their potential applications if not…
Person: Stuefer, Starkweather, Brubaker
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: emissions and smoke, fire forecasting, smoke detection
AICC Predictive Services meteorologist Heidi Strader provides an outlook for the 2018 fire season in Alaska and reviews the projects that Predictive Services staff have been involved in over the winter to improve their results. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Operations Meeting.
Person: Strader
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: weather prediction, precipitation, winter precipitation, snowpack, temperature, fire season, acres burned, remote sensing, NASA DEVELOP, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, NASA SPoRT, smoke modeling, AKFF - Alaska Fire and Fuels, WFAS - Wildland Fire Assessment System
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) and the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils (CPFC) worked collaboratively to produce the 2018 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey Report. Since 2012, this report has been compiled every three years, and is unique among fire…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire survey, fire policy, fire use
Preliminary list of fire research needs in Alaska.
Person: Barnes
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire management planning, research needs, collaboration and wildfire
Intense heating by wildfires can generate deep, smoke-infused thunderstorms, known as pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb), which can release a large quantity of smoke particles above jet aircraft cruising altitudes. Injections of pyroCb smoke into the lower stratosphere have gained…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: thunderstorms, pyrocumulonimbus, plumes, aerosol particles, stratospheric intrusions, smoke transport, residence time
The Rapid Deployments to Wildfires Experiment (RaDFIRE) was a meteorological field campaign aimed at observing fire–atmosphere interactions during active wildfires. Using a rapidly deployable scanning Doppler lidar, airborne Doppler radar, and a suite of other instruments, the…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: RaDFIRE - Rapid Deployments to Wildfires Experiment, fire-atmosphere interactions, plumes, wildfires, plume dynamics, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2010 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire management planning, research needs, collaboration and wildfire
Data from four continuous ozone and weather monitoring sites operated by the National Park Service in Sierra Nevada, California, are used to develop an ozone forecasting model and to estimate the contribution of wildland fires on ambient ozone levels. The analyses of weather and…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: BlueSky Modeling Framework, air pollution, time series, regression models, spline functions, California air-quality standard, next-day ozone forecasts, air quality, air temperature, climatology, fire intensity, fire management, national parks, ozone, particulates, pollution, Sierra Nevada, smoke management, statistical analysis, wind, wildfires
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