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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, bacteria, bibliographies, Erwinia herbicola, leaves, plant growth, Pseudomonas syringae, seedlings, smoke effects, statistical analysis, toxicity, Triticum sativum, wildfires, Zea mays
The motion of a strong line thermal in an unstratified atmosphere is modeled to estimate a bound for its capability to life firebrand particles. It is found that the maximum height of a viable firebrand is roughly proportional to the square root of thermal strength. The…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire control, fire management, firebrands, ignition, particulates, site treatments, smoke management, spot fires, temperature, wildfires, wind
An earlier paper* described three techniques used to estimate the moisture content of large (3- to 9-inch diameter) woody fuels in logging slash west of the Cascade range in Washington and Oregon. Our paper examines the use of these and other independent variables to predict…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: broadcast burning, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, fire hazard reduction, fuel appraisal, fuel arrangement, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, heat, logging, moisture, Oregon, Pseudotsuga menziesii, size classes, slash, surface fuels, trees, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, woody fuels
Goals and objectives outlined in the Clean Air Act of 1977 are in conflict with land management practices that utilize control or prescribed burns to maintain a healthy ecosystem. Specifically, smoke emissions from burn areas can significantly and adversely affect the visual air…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, land management, landscape ecology, national parks, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, pollution, K - potassium, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness fire management
'The smoke generated when wood is heated in air contains a considerable range of compounds resulting from the distillation and degradation of celluloses, lignins, resins and tannins. Visible particles which are formed when the smoke cools appear to equilibriate rapidly with the…
Person:
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: aerosols, air quality, cellulose, chemical compounds, combustion, distribution, extractives, lignin, particulates, pollution, resins, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, wildlife habitat management, wood, wood chemistry
The high variablility of burning conditions and fuels, found in Alaskan forest fires, produces an associated complex emission of particulate matter. Histological evidence of some large particles has been found in the forest fire plumes as well as aerosols resulting apparently…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, distribution, energy, environmental impact analysis, heat, Interior Alaska, particulates, radiation, remote sensing, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires, wind
Prescribed burning is an effective tool widely used in forest management. Several strategies are employed to minimize pollution from prescribed fire, including systems to avoid polluting sensitive areas or to ensure adequate dilution between the source and the receptors. Success…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission reduction, pollution
The acres of forest land treated by prescribed fire in the Pacific Northwest have steadily increased over the last decade despite escalating costs, better utilization, and environmental concerns (Washington Department of Natural Resources 1983). In conflict with that trend,…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, emission reduction, smoke management
Results of aerial measurements in plumes from large urban areas, petroleum refineries, automotive-painting operations, fossil-fuel power plants, and controlled burning of forest slash are presented. Field monitoring studies occurred during summer months between 1974 and 1980 and…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Eastern, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: plumes, pollutants, photochemical ozone formation
Source strength is defined as the rate of release of an emission into the atmosphere from a specified process. In this paper, source-strength modeling of emissions of particulate matter from prescribed fires is discussed from three perspectives: 1) unit area (per m2), 2) unit…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, source strength model
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Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, combustion, computer programs, fuel models, Oregon, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire, meteorology
'Two studies were undertaken. An initial study in 1974 produced results that indicated significant losses of nitrogen and some other elements. The study was repeated 1981 as a check on the results of the 1974 burn, and to provide an assessment of the methods used in the first…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Acer macrophyllum, air quality, Alnus rubra, Betula papyrifera, biomass, British Columbia, calcium, Canada, chemical elements, clearcutting, combustion, ecosystem dynamics, forest management, fuel management, laboratory fires, magnesium, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, particulates, phosphorus, pine hardwood forests, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus radiata, Populus trichocarpa, K - potassium, Pseudotsuga menziesii, sampling, slash, soils, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla
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Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: agriculture, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, combustion, decay, flammability, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, hydrogen, ignition, statistical analysis, temperature, Washington, wildfires, wood
Wild and prescribed fires currently burn about 20,100 ha per year in Washington west of the Cascade Crest: prehistoric wildfires burned an estimated 19,200 ha per year. Modern burning consumes 38 g/m²/yr of fuel; the estimated prehistoric rate was 35 g/m²/yr over a 50-percent…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: prehistoric fires, smoke production, fuel consumption, western Washington, Abies amabilis, aerial ignition, air quality, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, evergreens, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire regimes, fire weather, foliage, forest types, heavy fuels, lightning caused fires, litter, logging, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource management, Picea sitchensis, population density, prehistoric fires, season of fire, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, understory vegetation, wildfires
Forest fires can be divided into two broad classes-wildfires and prescribed fires. Wildfires, whether caused by nature (lightning, etc.) or by the accidental or malicious acts of man, are not planned by forest managers and do not occur under controlled conditions. They can be…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fuel characteristics, fire emissions, forest fires, bibliographies, C - carbon, cellulose, chemistry, clearcutting, combustion, decay, duff, energy, ferns, fire weather, fuel moisture, fuel types, grass fuels, herbaceous vegetation, hydrocarbons, H2 - hydrogen, ignition, lignin, litter, logging, nutrients, organic matter, O - oxygen, fine particulates, seedlings, slash, woody fuels