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In May 2003, intense forest fires occurred over Siberia, which were the largest fires in the past decade. In order to quantify the effects of these fires on regional air quality in East Asia, we used a global chemical transport model (CTM) with a biomass burning emission…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, forest management, ozone, Russia, Siberia, wildfires, chemical transport model, biomass burning, forest fire aerosols, radiative forcing, tropospheric ozone
The Amazon is being rapidly transformed by fire. Logging and forest fragmentation sharply elevate fire incidence by increasing forest desiccation and fuel loads, and forests that have experienced a low-intensity surface fire are vulnerable to far more catastrophic fires.…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Amazon, Brazil, catastrophic fires, deforestation, droughts, ENSO, evapotranspiration, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, flammability, forest edges, forest fragmentation, forest management, fragmentation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, climate change, human caused fires, land use, leaves, litter, logging, low intensity burns, overstory, precipitation, rainforests, rate of spread, remote sensing, South America, succession, surface fires, tropical forests, tropical regions, wildfires, woody fuels
Of Georgia's 37 million acres, 24.8 million acres are forestland. On an average, 1.2 million acres are prescribed burned each year. Georgia faces two main challenges with their prescribed fire program, air quality and urban sprawl. These two will make it more difficult to obtain…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, education, fire management, fire protection, Florida, forest management, fuel management, Georgia, public information, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station
Air quality concerns are on the increase for a growing population of 9 million Georgians. Metropolitan Atlanta is the epicenter of Georgia's air issues but urbanization along the fall line of the Georgia Piedmont region is affecting air quality for metropolitan statistical areas…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire management, Florida, forest management, Georgia, histories, ozone, particulates, Piedmont, pollution, Polyborus plancus, public information, rural communities, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tennessee, Washington
Characterization of the true extent of the effects of smoke from prescribed fires and wildland fires on ambient air quality is incomplete due to the deficiency of air quality monitoring sites in rural areas. Also, particulate standards are based on 24-hour and annual averages,…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire management, fire size, Florida, Georgia, smoke effects, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station, wildfires
From the text ... 'Increasing vulnerability of peat and forest ecosystems to fire and transboundary wildland fire smoke pollution are the key problems in the region.'
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, China, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, Japan, Korea, peat, peatlands, pollution, Russia, smoke management, wildfires
From the text ... 'The regional is characterized by continental climate with extreme fire seasons affecting forest and steppe ecosystems.'
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: Afghanistan, Asia, boreal forests, CO - carbon monoxide, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest fragmentation, forest management, climate change, grasslands, human caused fires, Kazakhstan, lightning caused fires, Mongolia, Russia, wildfires
Biomass burning is a major source of aerosols that affect air quality and the Earth's radiation budget. Current estimates of biomass burning emissions vary markedly due to uncertainties in biomass density, combustion efficiency, emission factor, and burned area. This study…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Arizona, Arkansas, biomass, biomass burning, combustion, coniferous forests, cover, cover type, deciduous forests, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, grasslands, hardwood forests, heavy fuels, Idaho, leaves, litter, Louisiana, moisture, Montana, needles, Oregon, particulates, radiation, remote sensing, shrubs, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, wildfires, biomass burning emissions, particulate matter, multiple satellite instruments, GOES, near real time
The burning of agricultural crop residue represents a major source of trace gases (CO, CO2, NO, NO2, and NOx) and particulate matter on a regional and global scale. This study investigates the gaseous and particulate emissions from the burning of rice, wheat and corn straws,…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, Asia, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, China, combustion, cropland fires, fire management, gases, GIS - geographic information system, particulates, range management, agricultural crop residue, gaseous pollutant, emission factor, EI - Emission Inventory, emission allocation
Prescribed burning is a large aerosol source in the southeastern United States. Its air quality impact is investigated using 3-D model simulations and analysis of ground and satellite observations. Fire emissions for 2002 are calculated based on a recently developed VISTAS…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Alabama, biomass burning, CO - carbon monoxide, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, Florida, forest management, Georgia, ozone, pollution, season of fire, South Carolina, telemetry, wildlife habitat management
In this study, we used fire count datasets derived from Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) satellite to characterize spatial patterns in fire occurrences across highly diverse geographical, vegetation and topographic gradients in the Indian region. For characterizing the…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass burning, cropland fires, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, ignition, India, montane forests, particulates, precipitation, rate of spread, remote sensing, savannas, slash, slash and burn, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires, fires, spatial patterns, point pattern analysis, vegetation fires, India
Forest fires remain a devastating phenomenon in the tropics that not only affect forest structure and biodiversity, but also contribute significantly to atmospheric CO2. Fire used to be extremely rare in tropical forests, leaving ample time for forests to regenerate to pre-fire…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): 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, National
Keywords: biomass, Borneo, carbon dioxide, cover, diameter classes, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire size, forest management, fruits, fuel accumulation, Indonesia, leaves, low intensity burns, mast, pioneer species, plant growth, population density, post fire recovery, rainforests, regeneration, seed production, seedlings, species diversity, species diversity (plants), stand characteristics, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires, burned forest regeneration, El Nino drought, fire damage, pioneer species, recruitment
Historic and current use pesticides (HUPs and CUPS), with respect to use in the United States and Canada, were identified in trans-Pacific and regional air masses at Mt Bachelor Observatory (MBO), a remote high elevation mountain in Oregon's Cascade Range located in the United…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest, International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Asia, Canada, Cascades Range, chemical compounds, croplands, elevation, erosion, hydrocarbons, Oregon, pesticides, sampling, smoke management, soils, wildfires, wind
Biomass burning is an important primary source of particles containing biomarker compounds, which are introduced into smoke primarily by direct volatilization/steam stripping and by thermal alteration based on combustion conditions. This study presents comprehensive organic…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, biomass, biomass burning, cellulose, chemical compounds, combustion, coniferous forests, fire management, forest management, hydrocarbons, leaves, lignin, litter, Oregon, organic matter, particulates, pine hardwood forests, Pinus ponderosa, Quercus, resins, savannas, smoke management, vegetation surveys, volatilization, wildfires, wood
Plume dispersion models may improve assessment of the health effects associated with forest fire smoke, but they require considerable expertise in atmospheric and fire sciences to initialize and evaluate. Products from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, decay, fire management, fire size, forest management, health factors, Idaho, Montana, pollution, remote sensing, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, Washington, wildfires, forest fire smoke, dispersion modeling, MODIS products, public health
Background: Air pollution in Darwin, Northern Australia, is dominated by smoke from seasonal fires in the surrounding savanna that burn during the dry season from April to November. Our aim was to study the association between particulate matter less than or equal to 10 microns…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, Australia, diseases, fire hazard reduction, fire management, health factors, Northern Territory of Australia, particulates, pollution, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wildfires
Recent investigations indicate that wildfires provide a significant flux of mercury (Hg) from terrestrial ecosystems to the atmosphere. However, little is known about how geographic location, climate, stand age, and tree species affect Hg accumulation prior to burning and loss…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, age classes, air quality, biomass burning, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, decomposition, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, foliage, forest management, gases, litter, Hg - mercury, mountains, overstory, particulates, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, precipitation, soil management, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soil temperature, soils, statistical analysis, volatilization, Washington, wildfires, Hg - mercury, soil, forest, release, Rex Creek Fire
Communities impacted by fine-particle air pollution (particles with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 mm; PM2.5) from forest fires and residential wood burning require effective, evidence-based exposure-reduction strategies. Public health recommendations during smoke…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, fire management, particulates, pollution, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wood, particulate matter, air quality, indoor air quality, infiltration, air cleaning
The impact of particle emissions by biomass burning is increasing throughout the world. We explored the toxicity of particulate matter produced by sugar cane burning and compared these effects with equivalent mass of traffic-derived particles. For this purpose, BALB/c mice…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, biomass, biomass burning, Brazil, croplands, fire management, health factors, hydrocarbons, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, South America, toxicity, water, sugar cane burning, particulate matter, air pollution, lung mechanics
From the text (p.19) ... 'There natural periodic fires help keep the turkey population in a good condition well before over-hunting and fire suppression caused its fall. Turkeys respond very quickly, sometimes overnight, to areas that have been burned. I hope you can use burning…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backfires, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, game birds, habits and behavior, hunting, Meleagris gallopavo, post fire recovery, smoke management, suppression, thinning, Turkey, wildlife habitat management, wildlife management
The sizes and concentrations of 21 atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were measured at Jhu-Shan (a rural site) and Sin-Gang (a town site) in central Taiwan in October and December 2005. Air samples were collected using semi-volatile sampling trains (PS-1 sampler…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, combustion, cropland fires, distribution, fire management, gases, humidity, hydrocarbons, particulates, pollution, sampling, smoke management, Taiwan, temperature, wind
From the text ... 'Every year, the Boise National Forest prescribed fire program burns an average of 7,000 to 8,000 acres (2,800 to 3,200 ha). The forest is located near Idaho's capital, which is the third largest metropolitan area in the northwest, and introduction of any smoke…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: education, fire management, fire suppression, Idaho, national forests, public information, smoke management
From the text ... 'How do some of us get through those dark days, learn from our mistakes, and continue to do our jobs as best we can? What makes some of us 'bounce back' from a serious accident, a fatality, or on escaped prescribed fire and continue to do the work on the land…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: Apalachicola National Forest, education, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, firing techniques, ignition, national forests, north Florida, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, season of fire, smoke effects, spot fires, Utah, wildfires
Fire managers must consider air-quality impacts when planning prescribed burns or devising wildfire containment strategies. Particulate matter (PM) is the primary pollutant of concern: it is the major component of smoke and has known detrimental influences on human health and…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, fire control, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, humidity, particulates, precipitation, radiation, smoke management, temperature, wildfires, wind, air pollution, wildland fire, PM2.5, PM10
From the text (p.2) ... 'These proceedings are the culmination of that initial effort: not the final word. This Summit will be followed in short order by a series of meetings to develop a strategic future where the use of prescribed fire is a welcomed certainty.'
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, Georgia, litter, nutrient cycling