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Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection…
Person: Werth
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire weather, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, extreme fire behavior, spot fires, vortices, smoke plumes, SWFSC - Southwest Fire Science Consortium, fire interactions, fire weather patterns, crown fire dynamics
CONSUME [1.0] is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of IBM-PC applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption on logged units based on weather data, the amount and fuel moisture of fuels, and a number…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: duff consumption, fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, Consume 1.0, CONSUME
During summer 1969, fires burned 86,000 acres of the Kenai National Moose Range, south-central Alaska; two fires accounted for 99 percent of the burned area. Suppression efforts involved nearly 5,000 men; 135 miles of catline were constructed, and 822,000 gallons of retardant…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: effectiveness, rehabilitation methods, artificial regeneration, browse, fertilization, fire case histories, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firebreak, forest management, light, mammals, mortality, national forests, post-fire recovery, regeneration, recreation, site treatments, rivers, small mammals, snags, statistical analysis, suppression, US Forest Service, trees, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
This study focuses on the identification of ignition characteristics and carbon discharge resulting from combustion of surface fuels vulnerable to forest fire. Four withered surface fuels, including dead leaves and cones of Pinus densiflora, dead leaves of Quercus variabilis,…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, fuel moisture, ignition, rate of spread, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cones, leaves, Pinus densiflora, Japanese red pine, Korea, Asia, fire management, forest management, fuel management, carbon emissions, forest fire, Pinus densiflora
Boreal forest fires are an important source of terrestrial carbon emissions, particularly during years of widespread wildfires. Most carbon emission models parameterize wildfire impacts and carbon flux to area burned by fires, therein making the assumption that fires consume a…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire regimes, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cover, fire management, forest management, boreal forests, boreal forest, C - carbon, dNBR - differenced (or delta) Normalized Burn Ratio, NLCD - National Land Cover Database
Fire occurs frequently over wetland, but little is known of its impact on soil carbon variations and carbon mineralization, process that are potentially important in global carbon cycle. To investigate this issue, we have designed and implemented a two-year field campaign to…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, season of fire, wildfires, C - carbon, nutrient cycling, soil nutrients, China, Asia, fire management, soil management, watershed management, wetlands, carbon cycling, soil carbon, wetland, mineralization, microbial biomass carbon
Savanna burning for greenhouse gas abatement presents an opportunity for remote Aboriginal communities of northern Australia to engage with the mainstream economy while fulfilling cultural obligations for (land stewardship. The recently established Tiwi Carbon Study aims to…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: experimental fires, fire frequency, fire intensity, aborigines, air quality, C - carbon, greenhouse gases, CH4 - methane, Northern Territory of Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, savannas, carbon sequestration, CH4 - methane, N2O - nitrous oxide, Tiwi Islands
Biomass burning (BB) contributes large amounts of black carbon (BC) and particulate organic matter (POM) to the atmosphere and contributes significantly to the earth's radiation balance. BB particles can be a complicated optical system, with scattering and absorption…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: biomass burning, fire case histories, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, organic matter, particulates, Colorado, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests, forest fire, tar balls
This study has assessed the seasonal occurrence of annual vegetation fires and defined inter-seasonally burned area for the different vegetation cover types across Ghana and the northern region of Ghana using 10-year (2001-2010) remote sensing data. These values were used with…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, C - carbon, cover, greenhouse gases, nutrients, phosphorus, remote sensing, Ghana, Africa, fire management, forest management, smoke management, savannas, bushfire, land cover, atmospheric nutrient deposition, carbon emissions, soil P loss, food security
This paper examines the economic potential for fire management to provide offsets to carbon markets in the savannas of northern Australia. Long-term field trials in Australia's savannas have quantified greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions abatement resulting from improved fire…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, greenhouse gases, Northern Territory of Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, savannas, carbon market, climate change mitigation, fire management, greenhouse gas offset, Indigenous fire management
Prescribed fire can potentially reduce carbon emissions from unplanned fires. This potential will differ among ecosystems owing to inherent differences in the efficacy of prescribed burning in reducing unplanned fire activity (or 'leverage', i.e. the reduction in area of…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fine fuels, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel types, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, climate change, litter, statistical analysis, Eucalyptus spp., Australia, fire management, forest management, fuel management, smoke management, sclerophyll forests
In this study, we investigate the potential of multi-satellite datasets for quantifying the biomass burning emissions from the Himalayan region. A variety of satellite products were used for characterizing fire events including active fire counts, burnt areas, aerosol optical…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, vegetation surveys, Himalayas, India, Asia, fire management, smoke management, vegetation fires, biomass burnt, India
Mean annual biomass burning contributions to the bulk particulate matter (PMX) load were quantified in a southern-European urban environment (Barcelona, Spain) with special attention to typical Mediterranean winter and summer conditions. In spite of the complexity of the local…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, season of fire, wildfires, aerosols, agriculture, air quality, C - carbon, particulates, Spain, Europe, fire management, smoke management, Mediterranean habitats, urban habitats, levoglucosan, frest fire, wildfire, open burning, Agricultural Residue
We used land-cover maps and active fire detection based on satellite imagery to evaluate the rates and spatial distribution of peatland deforestation in Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2010. Over this time period, the proportion of forest cover in the peatlands of Peninsular…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Aquatic
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cover, deforestation, mosaic, remote sensing, Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sumatra, Asia, fire management, forest management, peatlands, swamps
Landscape fires during the 21st century are expected to change in response to multiple agents of global change. Important controlling factors include climate controls on the length and intensity of the fire season, fuel availability, and fire management, which are already…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire suppression, fuel accumulation, human caused fires, season of fire, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, climate change, population density, statistical analysis, fire adaptations, land use
BACKGROUND: Forest, grass, and peat fires release approximately 2 petagrams of carbon into the atmosphere each year, influencing weather, climate, and air quality.OBJECTIVE: We estimated the annual global mortality attributable to landscape fire smoke (LFS).METHODS: Daily and…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, deforestation, diseases, health factors, mortality, pollution, fire management, forest management, landscape ecology, smoke management, rainforests, savannas, tropical forests, air pollution, biomass burning, carbon cycle, deforestation, global burden of disease, Landscape Fire Smoke, mortality
Soil microbes regulate the transfer of carbon (C) from ecosystems to the atmosphere and in doing so influence feedbacks between terrestrial ecosystems and global climate change. Fire is one element of global change that may influence soil microbial communities and, in turn,…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire intensity, post fire recovery, wildfires, biomass, C - carbon, climate change, fungi, mortality, microorganisms, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil organisms, soil temperature, volatilization, water repellent soils, fire management, soil management, boreal forests, grasslands, biome, fire severity, fungi, global climate change, meta-analysis, microbial biomass, soil CO2 emissions
From the text... 'The 'Soiling Potential' technique for evaluating fossil fuel combustion plumes in quantitative units is explained by examples and test results. The technique may serve as a valuable tool in emission inventory programs since it is a reproducible method for…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, ash, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, fuel management, gases, Ohio, particulates, pollution, smoke behavior, statistical analysis
Increases in the emissions and associated atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) have the potential to cause significant changes to the structure and function of N-limited ecosystems. Here, we present the results of a long-term (13 year) experiment assessing the impacts of N…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, post fire recovery, season of fire, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, droughts, lichens, N - nitrogen, soils, vegetation surveys, Calluna vulgaris, heather, United Kingdom, Europe, fire management, forest management, heathlands, Calluna vulgaris, carbon budget, climate change, drought injury, ecosystem functioning, eutrophication, vegetation recovery
From the text ... 'Despite major advances in our understanding of how anthropogenic emissions impact on air quality, there is still very little knowledge of the roll that very small particles play in this pollution and how we can better manage this component of global emissions…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, N - nitrogen, particulates, pollution, remote sensing, S - sulfur, Tall Timbers Research Station, north Florida, fire management
An instrumented DC-8 aircraft was employed to perform airborne observations in rural and urban environs of California during the summer 2008 NASA ARCTAS-CARB campaign. The fortuitous occurrence of large wildfire episodes in Northern California allowed for studies of fire…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildfires, aerosols, air quality, N - nitrogen, ozone, pollution, statistical analysis, fire management, smoke management, urban habitats, ozone, wildfires, urban pollution, nitrogen oxides, PAN, formaldehyde, aerosol
Biomass burning smoke and associated aerosol particles from wildfires near Moscow, Russia during summer 2010 had a significant impact on air quality both in the close vicinity of the burning area and to a lesser extent in other parts of Eastern Europe. Smoke was also observed in…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire case histories, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, Finland, Russia, Europe, fire management, smoke management, biomass burning, particulate matter, black carbon, light scattering
Tropospheric ozone (O3) negatively impacts human health and ecosystems, and is a greenhouse gas. Wildfires are a source of tropospheric O3, and studies show that wildfires are increasing in North America. In this study, we present a critical review of O3 production from…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: biomass burning, fire frequency, fire intensity, smoke behavior, wildfires, air quality, greenhouse gases, N - nitrogen, ozone, pollution, fire management, smoke management, ozone production, wildfires, air quality impacts, ozone exceedances, ozone photochemistry
Agricultural field burning plays an important role in atmospheric pollution and climate change. This work aims to develop a detailed emission inventory for agricultural burning in China with a high spatial and temporal resolution. Province-specific statistical data, distributed…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: cropland fires, agriculture, air quality, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, climate change, CH4 - methane, N - nitrogen, particulates, S - sulfur, China, Asia, fire management, range management, smoke management, croplands, China, crop residue, fire emission, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Compositional transformation of South African semiarid grasslands and savannas owing to changes in soil nutrient status and fire-linked attributes is often reported. However, mechanisms of change are not fully understood. Currently, plant-derived smoke has attracted much…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, smoke effects, competition, grasses, N - nitrogen, nutrients, phosphorus, plant growth, K - potassium, seed germination, seedlings, soil nutrients, statistical analysis, water, Eragrostis curvula, weeping lovegrass, Panicum maximum, guinea grass, Poaceae, Themeda triandra, red grass, South Africa, Africa, fire management, range management, smoke management, arid regions, grasslands, savannas, competition, growth, nutrients, Poaceae, smoke constituents