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Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: education, fire case histories, fire management, Komarek, E.V., Sr., Los Alamos, Mexico, national forests, national parks, New Mexico, public information, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station

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Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Adenostoma fasciculatum, Africa, Australia, bark, bibliographies, boreal forests, Casuarina, Ceanothus, chaparral, chemistry, coniferous forests, distribution, Emmenanthe penduliflora, fire dependent species, fire regimes, fynbos, grasses, Hakea, heathlands, Leucadendron, Mediterranean habitats, Pinus attenuata, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, plant growth, population ecology, post fire recovery, Protea, reproduction, roots, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, Sequoia sempervirens, serotiny, shrublands, small mammals, smoke effects, South Africa, sprouting, tropical forests, vulnerable species or communities, Widdringtonia

Fires can mobilize radionuclides from contaminated biomass through suspension of gases and particles in the atmosphere or solubilization and enrichment of the ash. Field and laboratory burns were conducted to determine the fate of I, Cs and C1 in biomass fires. Straw, wood, peat…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, ash, biomass, Canada, chemical elements, chlorine, coniferous forests, cropland fires, fire management, fuel loading, fuel types, gases, laboratory fires, land management, peat, peat fires, pesticides, Pinus banksiana, Populus tremuloides, temperature, wildfires, wood, wood chemistry

From the Introduction...'Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, coniferous forests, dead fuels, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fire frequency, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, GIS, health factors, histories, Idaho, land management, land use, Larix lyallii, logging, Montana, natural resource legislation, Nevada, Oregon, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, public information, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, succession, Utah, Washington, watershed management, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires

A large eddy simulation (LES) model of smoke plumes generated by large outdoor pool fires is presented. The plume is described in terms of steady-state convective transport by a uniform ambient wind of heated gases and particulate matter introduced into a stably stratified…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: crude oil, smoke plume, buoyant plume, large eddy simulation, in situ burning

This paper's title - "Can we restore the fire process? What awaits us if we don't?" - represents an ecologist's view of the world. I submit that this view is unrealistic. The first clause uses the term "restore" which implies reestablishing the fire process of the past. The…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire regimes, air quality, biomass, clearcutting, combustion, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fertilizers, fire adaptations, fire frequency, fire management planning, land use, multiple resource management, N - nitrogen, regeneration, temperature, wildfires

Several smoke-dispersion models, which currently are available for modeling smoke from biomass burns, were evaluated for ease of use, availability of input data, and output data format. The input and output components of all models are listed, and differences in model physics…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire, biomass burning, dispersion, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team

This is a user's manual for VSMOKE, a computer program for predicting the smoke and dry weather visibility impact of a single prescribed fire at several downwind locations. VSMOKE is a FORTRAN 77 program that depends on the input in file VSMOKE.IPT to generate output in file…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer models, visibility, VSMOKE

We begin our study of wildland fire with the basic principles and mechanisms of the combustion process-fire fundamentals. In the next chapter we look at wildland fire as an event. Fire behavior is what a fire does, the dynamics of the fire event. In later chapters we move up the…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: BEHAVE, fire intensity, fire weather, fuel load, fuel moisture, atmospheric stability, drought, extreme fire behavior, fire environment, fire growth, fire spread, fuel classification, wind

The Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) is the lowest portion of the Earth's atmosphere which is affected significantly by the properties of the Earth's (land or ocean) surface. The ABL may show a large daily variation in wind, temperature, and stability or turbulence. The ABL is…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: atmospheric boundary layer

Tropical forest felling can be for the purpose of traditional shifting cultivation, after which forest is re-established, or for permanent land-use change, which is defined as deforestation. Recent decades have seen a dramatic increase in tropical deforestation caused by slash-…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, biomass, boreal forests, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, dead fuels, deforestation, evapotranspiration, forest management, fossils, fuel accumulation, gases, climate change, grasslands, greenhouse gases, hydrology, land use, overstory, plantations, runoff, slash and burn, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, tropical forests, slash-and-burn, deforestation, carbon balance, climate change, land use

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Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): 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, International, National
Keywords: Acer, C - carbon, combustion, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, flammability, forest management, hydrocarbons, litter, Los Alamos, Mexico, needles, New Mexico, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, particulates, Pinus flexilis, Pinus ponderosa, Populus, post fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus, sampling, scorch, statistical analysis, volatilization, woody fuels, MINERALIZATION PATTERNS, monoterpenes

Fires can produce a wide range of changes in nutrient cycles of forest, shrub, and grassland ecosystems depending on fire severity, fire frequency, vegetation, and climate. These changes can be beneficial when fires increase the availability of plant nutrients, and deleterious…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air temperature, Artemisia, ash, biomass, chaparral, chemistry, coniferous forests, convection, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fine fuels, fire frequency, fire intensity, forest management, fuel loading, fungi, grasslands, heavy fuels, humidity, Juniperus, litter, low intensity burns, Madrean habitats, microorganisms, mineral soils, mycorrhiza, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, organic matter, phosphorus, Pinus edulis, plant nutrients, precipitation, roots, runoff, shrublands, slash, soil erosion, soil leaching, soil organisms, soil permeability, soil temperature, soils, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, volatilization, wind, FIRE-DOMINATED FOREST ECOSYSTEMS, GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS, NUTRIENT POOLS AND FLUXES, soil biota

After nearly a century of avid fire suppression, land managers are substantially increasing prescribed burning to meet ecosystem management objectives. As scientists and managers we need to accurately quantify the capacity of airsheds to assimilate smoke and related atmospheric…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, water quality, smoke modeling, pollutants, prescribed natural fire, wildfire, atmospheric dispersion, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, catastrophic fires, chemical compounds, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, health factors, hydrocarbons, land management, logging, Madrean habitats, natural resource legislation, NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act, N - nitrogen, pollution, chance ignition prescribed fires, slash, smoke management, soils, US Forest Service, wind

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Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, remote sensing, carbon dioxide production, global change, biomass burning