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Communicating emissions impacts to the public can sometimes be difficult because quantitatively conveying smoke concentrations is complicated. Regulators and land managers often refer to particulate-matter concentrations in micrograms per cubic meter, but this may not be…
Person: Hyde
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke management, smoke impacts, WinHaze, visibility, photographs, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, particulate matter (PM) concentrations, relative humidity, air quality, AQI - Air Quality Index, public health
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing revisions to certain sections within the regulations that govern the exclusion of event-influenced air quality data from certain regulatory decisions under the Clean Air Act (CAA). The EPA’s mission includes preserving and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, Clean Air Act, PM2.5, PM10, particulate emissions, public health, exceptional event, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Smoke from wildfires poses a significant threat to affected communities. Prescribed burning is conducted to reduce the extent and potential damage of wildfires, but produces its own smoke threat. Planners of prescribed fires model the likely dispersion of smoke to help manage…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, smoke impacts, smoke dispersion, New South Wales, smoke particulates, smoke plumes, air pollution, PM - particulate matter, smoke models, air quality
Characterizing public tolerance of smoke from wildland fires in communities across the United States
Little is known about public tolerance of smoke from wildland fires. By combining data from two household surveys, we sought to determine whether tolerance of smoke from wildland fires varies with its origin or managerial rationale, to describe geographical variation in…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: forest management, public health, tolerance, public acceptance, wildfires, survey, fire suppression, lightning caused fires, Oregon, South Carolina, Montana, Idaho, Texas, Louisiana, air quality, health factors, slash, thinning, fire management, smoke management, smoke effects
In recent decades much attention has been given to the Arctic environment, where climate change is happening rapidly. Black carbon (BC) has been shown to be a major component of Arctic pollution that also affects the radiative balance. In the present study, we focused on how…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: black carbon, carbon budget, climate change, Eurasia, Arctic, wildfires
Fuel treatments in fire-suppressed mixed-conifer forests are designed to moderate potential wildfire behavior and effects. However, the objectives for modifying potential fire effects can vary widely, from improving fire suppression efforts and protecting infrastructure, to…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: fuel treatments, fuel treatment strategies, trade-offs, fire severity, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire suppression, wildfires, Sierra Nevada, air quality, particulates, fire management, fuel management, forest management, wildlife habitat management, coniferous forests
[from the text] Sometimes it seems as if we have studied all there is to know about how smoke behaves during prescribed fires. However, scientists designing smoke forecasting models for the real world have found that we are still missing some of the information needed to…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: New Jersey, New Jersey Pine Barrens, smoke behavior, turbulence, smoke plumes, turbulent kinetic energy
Working on a wildland fire incident, you are responsible for the safety of yourself and those around you. At high exposure levels, smoke inhalation can jeopardize this safety by impairing your decision-making abilities. If your health is impaired your judgment and decision…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke exposure, firefighter safety, CO - carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, acrolein, ozone, particulates, nitrogen oxides, mitigation, PPE - Personal Protective Equipment
This webinar will review the objectives and progress of the multi-agency Fire and Smoke Modeling Experiment (FASMEE) project. The primary objective of FASMEE is to gather observational data needed to evaluate and advance fire and smoke modeling systems. The project has two…
Person: Ottmar, Larkin
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, smoke models, RxCADRE, plumes, fuelbeds, fuel measurement, plume dynamics, smoke science research, smoke measurements
Although agricultural burning is banned in Russia, it is still a widespread practice. Accurately monitoring cropland burned area is an important task as these estimates are used in the calculation of cropland burning emissions, which are ultimately utilized in policy making…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: burned area, cropland fires, cropland residue burning, Russia, remote sensing, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, agricultural burning
Wildfire can impose a direct impact on human health under climate change. While the potential impacts of climate change on wildfires and resulting air pollution have been studied, it is not known who will be most affected by the growing threat of wildfires. Identifying…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: particulates, air pollution, climate change, PM2.5 emissions
Ontario has made a commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 15, 37, and 80% below 1990 levels by 2020, 2030, and 2050, respectively. Ontario's forest managers can contribute to meeting these targets by implementing changes to forestry practices that either…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: slash piles, Ontario, Canada, forest management, harvest residue, decay, avoided emissions, greenhouse gas emissions
Estimates of biomass-burning in wildfires or prescribed fires are needed to account for the production of trace gases and aerosols that enter the atmosphere during combustion. Research has demonstrated that the biomass consumption rate is linearly related to fire radiative power…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: biomass combustion, fire intensity, FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, fuel consumption, remote sensing, biomass burning, laboratory experiments
Fire whirls are powerful, spinning disasters for people and surroundings when they occur in large urban and wildland fires. Whereas fire whirls have been studied for fire-safety applications, previous research has yet to harness their potential burning efficiency for enhanced…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire whirls, vortex breakdown, blue whirl, combustion, soot, flame length, laboratory fires, pollution, wildfires, fire management
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar by Stephen McCullers, J.D. of King and Spalding LLC, Atlanta. Prescribed fire is a ubiquitous tool for managing and restoring many Southeastern US ecosystems. In certain situations, prescribed fire can be the most effective and least expensive…
Person: McCullers
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: liability, legal liability, negligence
The 2015 fire season and related smoke pollution in Indonesia was more severe than the major 2006 episode, making it the most severe season observed by the NASA Earth Observing System satellites that go back to the early 2000s, namely active fire detections from the Terra and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, drought, biomass burning, haze, pollution, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, MOPITT - Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere instrument, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, OMI - Ozone Monitoring Instrument, MLS - Microwave Limb Sounder
Wildfires are heating up once again in the American West. In 2015, wildfires burned more than 10 million acres in the United States at a cost of $2.1 billion in federal expenditures. As the fires burned, the U.S. Forest Service announced that, for the first time, more than half…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: budget, wildfire management, wildfire policy
In this presentation Evan will provide a brief introduction to efforts at the University of Maryland and the Joint (NASA and NOAA) Polar Science System’s (JPSS) Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) program. The goal of the PGRR project is to leverage the VIIRS AF products…
Person: Ellicott
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire risk reduction, remote sensing, satellite imagery, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, geospatial data, Sentinel-3
In this presentation Evan will provide a brief introduction to efforts at the University of Maryland and the Joint (NASA and NOAA) Polar Science System’s (JPSS) Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) program. The goal of the PGRR project is to leverage the VIIRS AF products…
Person: Ellicott, Jenkins
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: remote sensing, satellite imagery, fire risk reduction, geospatial data, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Sentinel-3
Carbon farming initiatives have rapidly developed in recent years, influencing broad scale changes to land management regimes. In the open carbon market a premium can be secured if additional benefits, such as biodiversity conservation or social advancement, can be quantified.…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, additionality, carbon markets, carbon farming, ecosystem services, season of fire, PES - Payments for Ecosystem Services
Landscape fires occur on a large scale in (sub)tropical savannas and grasslands, affecting ecosystem dynamics, regional air quality and concentrations of atmospheric trace gasses. Fuel consumption per unit of area burned is an important but poorly constrained parameter in fire…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: South America, Africa, Australia, biomass burning, fuel consumption, satellite, area burned, FRP - Fire Radiative Power, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, SEVIRI - Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager, spatial patterns, wildfires, remote sensing, fire management, fuel management, range management, grasslands, savannas
Accurate fuel load and consumption predictions are important to estimate fire effects and air pollutant emissions. The FOFEM (First Order Fire Effects Model) is a commonly used model developed in the western United States to estimate fire effects such as fuel consumption, soil…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, shortleaf pine, Pinus echinata, fuel loading, Arkansas, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, Ouachita Mountains, consumption, fire models, air quality, duff, litter, mortality, national forests, pollution, soil temperature, statistical analysis, fire management, forest management, smoke management, hardwood forest, pine hardwood forests, pine forests
Lucia Woo, Yale University, will give a presentation on her wildfire-health research
Person: Woo
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: air pollution, human health, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, wildfires, respiratory illness, health impacts, smoke exposure, wildfires, air quality, climate change
The prevailing paradigm in the western U.S. is that the increase in stand-replacing wildfires in historically frequent-fire dry forests is due to unnatural fuel loads that have resulted from management activities including fire suppression, logging, and grazing, combined with…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: forest restoration, literature review, treatment effectiveness, dry forests, thinning, fire severity, carbon storage
During July 2002, forest fires in Quebec, Canada, blanketed the US East Coast with a plume of wood smoke. This 'natural experiment' exposed large populations in northeastern US cities to significantly elevated concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), providing a unique…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: Canada, Quebec, mortality, air quality, air pollution, fine particulate matter, PM2.5, human health