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The potential of the recent SPOT VEGETATION (VGT) sensor for characterization of boreal forest fires was studied. The capability of the sensor for hotspot detection and burned area mapping was assessed by analysing a series of VGT, NOAA/AVHRR and Landsat TM images over a 1541…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, NDVI - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, remote sensing, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, boreal forest fire, hotspot detection, infrared, mapping burned area, SPOT-VEGETATION sensor, Alberta
Biomass burning releases significant amounts of trace gases and smoke aerosol into the atmosphere. This has an impact on the Earth's radiation budget, the magnitude of which has not yet been well quantified. Satellite remote sensing is well suited to assessing the area of…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Canada, fire, NDVI - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, remote sensing, smoke emissions, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, biomass consumption, heat flux, thermal hotspot detections
Laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate how both mineral soil and moisture content affect the smoldering combustion in forest duff. Peat was used to represent the fermentation and humus horizons (Oe and Oa soil horizons) of a coniferous forest floor nominally called…
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: canopy, combustion, Douglas-fir, jack pine, Pinus banksiana, Pseudotsuga menziesii, surface fire, coniferous forest, duff, Engelmann spruce, fermentation, humus, inorganic content, Larix occidentalis, lightning ignitions, mineral soil, moisture content, peat, Picea engelmannii, root damage, smoke pollution, smoldering, western larch, holdover fires
Low-level helicopter flights were used to collect samples of smoke from burning chaparral in southern California and over a boreal forest fire in norther Ontario, Canada. The smoke plume samples were analyzed for carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2), methane…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, International
Keywords: boreal forest, southern California, Canada, chaparral, combustion, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, flaming combustion, N2O - nitrous oxide, smoldering combustion, trace gas emissions, CH4 - methane, northern Ontario, H2 - hydrogen
From the text...'Global change, the combined effect of human activity on atmospheric and landscape processes (Vitousek 1994), affects all aspects of fire management. Scientists have documented changes in the global carbon cycle due to increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, bark, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, biomass, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, community ecology, coniferous forests, cover, deserts, distribution, European settlement, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fragmentation, climate change, grasslands, grazing, herbaceous vegetation, herbivory, Idaho, land use, landscape ecology, livestock, mining, Montana, mortality, Native Americans, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, post fire recovery, precipitation, regeneration, rural communities, species diversity (plants), subalpine forests, tundra, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, wilderness areas, wildfires, woody plants
Traditional biogeochernical theories suggest that ecosystem nitrogen retention is controlled by biotic N limitation, that stream N losses should increase with successional age, and that increasing N deposition will accelerate this process. These theories ignore the role of…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Acer saccharum, air quality, Betula alleghaniensis, Betula papyrifera, biogeochemical cycles, C - carbon, chemistry, cover, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Fagus grandifolia, forest management, hardwood forests, logging, mountains, New England, New Hampshire, New York, N - nitrogen, old growth forests, Picea rubens, Pinus strobus, Populus, slash, soil leaching, streamflow, streams, succession, Tsuga canadensis, watersheds
The classes of primary chemical products naturally produced by the combustion of forest fuels are: carbon dioxide, water, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, methane and non-methane hydrocarbons, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, nitrogen and sulfur oxides, aldehydes, free…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, arthropods, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, Dendroctonus frontalis, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel types, grasslands, hardwood forests, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, herbicides, humidity, hydrocarbons, insecticides, insects, integrated pest management, land management, litter, logging, CH4 - methane, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, pesticides, Piedmont, public information, site treatments, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, S - sulfur, understory vegetation, water, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife habitat management, air quality, herbicides, insecticides, pesticides
Forest ecosystems are enormously important to mankind. They not only supply wood, foods, medicines, waxes, oils, gums, resins and tannins, but they also regulate climate, hydrology, mineral cycling, soil erosion, and cleansing of air and water. A variety of natural and human-…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Eastern, Southern, International
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Acer saccharum, agriculture, air quality, arthropods, ash, Asia, Asimina, Australia, Betula alleghaniensis, bibliographies, Canada, Carya cordiformis, cover type conversion, deforestation, diseases, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire injuries (plants), fire management, floods, forest management, climate change, habitat conversion, hardwood forests, heat, human caused fires, hydrology, Ilex glabra, insects, Korea, land use, mortality, New Zealand, N - nitrogen, Ontario, photosynthesis, Picea mariana, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus elliottii, Pinus halepensis, Pinus palustris, Pinus radiata, Pinus resinosa, Pinus rigida, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, plant growth, plantations, pollution, Populus tremuloides, post fire recovery, precipitation, Quercus rubra, Quercus stellata, resins, Rhus typhina, runoff, seed germination, slash and burn, soil erosion, soils, species diversity (plants), succession, temperature, thinning, trees, tropical forests, understory vegetation, water, water quality, wildfires, wind, Wisconsin, wood, woody plants, acid rain, agroforestry, biocide, biodiversity, deforestation, ecosystem, flooding, forest decline, genetic engineering, global warming, greenhouse gas, plantations, natural forests, nitrogen saturation, phytotron, pollution, remote sensing, salinity, soil compaction, slash-and-burn agriculture
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: ash, bibliographies, chemistry, community ecology, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fishes, floods, fuel moisture, grasslands, habitat types, hydrology, lakes, landscape ecology, litter, logging, mortality, mosaic, multiple resource management, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, organic matter, overstory, post fire recovery, recreation, regeneration, riparian habitats, runoff, scrub, sedimentation, smoke effects, statistical analysis, streamflow, streams, succession, topography, water quality, watersheds, wildfires, wildlife, woody plants, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Cistus spp., cones, Cupressus sempervirens, dominance (ecology), droughts, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, evergreens, fire adaptations (plants), fire regimes, fire resistant plants, flammability, flowering, forestation, grazing, Greece, hardwoods, legumes, light, litter, mammals, Mediterranean habitats, moisture, mortality, needles, N - nitrogen, pine forests, Pinus brutia, Pinus halepensis, Pinus nigra, pioneer species, plant growth, plant physiology, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, Quercion ilicis, rangelands, regeneration, reproduction, resprouting, sampling, Sarcopoterium spinosum, sclerophyll forests, seasonal activities, seed dispersal, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, serotiny, shrubs, soil moisture, statistical analysis, succession, wildfires, wind
Biomass burning is a significant regional and global source of gaseous and particulate emissions to the atmosphere. These emissions impact the composition and chemistry of the troposphere and stratosphere and affect the transfer of both incoming solar radiation and outgoing…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, ozone, PM - particulate matter, biomass burning, N - nitrogen, air quality, China, biomass, broadcast burning, catastrophic fires, charcoal, chemistry, climatology, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, gases, climate change, hydrocarbons, H2 - hydrogen, land use, CH4 - methane, particulates, radiation, Russia, savannas, Siberia, statistical analysis, S - sulfur, tropical forest, woody fuels
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, charcoal, chemistry, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, evolution, fire frequency, fire regimes, fossils, paleoecology, paleontology, plant growth, prehistoric fires, sedimentation, smoke effects, wetlands, wildfires
Emissions from prescribed fires in several different fuel types in the Pacific Northwest are characterized. Data on the particles are reported as functions of fire behavior and fuel types. Profiles of trace elements, carbon elements, and carbon for each fuel type and combustion…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, combustion, fire intensity, fuel types, particulates, season of fire, smoke management
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, human caused fires, ozone, rainforests, remote sensing, savannas, South America, tropical forests
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Arctic, Canada, C - carbon, chemistry, distribution, fuel types, gases, Greenland, Northwest Territories, organic matter, particulates, pollution, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, wildfires
Following a repetitive pattern, biomass burning affects the intertropical belt on a continental scale during the dry season1. The importance of these anthropogenic activities with regard to carbonaceous-component emissions into the global atmosphere is now well recognized2-4. It…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, chemistry, fire intensity, fire size, fuel types, habitat types, human caused fires, Ivory Coast, organic matter, particulates, pollution, post fire recovery, savannas, season of fire, seasonal activities, statistical analysis, tropical forests
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Eastern, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: bibliographies, C - carbon, charcoal, community ecology, conifers, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire regimes, fire size, fossils, fuel types, habitat types, humus, hydrology, lakes, Maine, microclimate, Minnesota, New England, paleoecology, pollen, sampling, sedimentation, soils, South Dakota, statistical analysis, water, wind
Emissions from prescribed fires in several different fuel types in the Pacific Northwest have been characterized. The characteristics of the particles less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter are reported as functions of fire behavior and fuel types. Profiles of trace elements and…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: C - carbon, particles, fuel types, trace element analysis
The D/H content of methane emitted from biomass burning was measured using samples of smoke collected from large-scale laboratory combustion experiments and from fires typical of slash burning of primary forest and of pasture burning in the Brazilian Amazon. In laboratory…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: C - carbon, CH4 - methane, Brazil
We used NOAA-AVHRR satellite imagery, biomass density maps, fuel consumption estimates, and a carbon emission factor to estimate the total carbon (C) emissions from the spring 1998 fires in tropical Mexico. All eight states in southeast Mexico were affected by the wildfires,…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire, biomass, carbon emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, tropospheric ozone, Mexico, agriculture, air quality, charcoal, C - carbon, Chiapas, climatology, cover, deforestation, digital data collection, distribution, drought, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, evapotranspiration, evergreens, fire injury, fire management, fire management planning, fire size, fire suppression, fragmentation, grasslands, greenhouse gases, habitat conversion, human caused fires, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land use, mortality, photography, overstory, Pinus, plantations, population density, precipitation, Quercus, remote sensing, savannas, storms, tropical forest, understory vegetation, winds