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Community Tools and Resources: Ways to Mitigate the Adverse Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke

The impact of wildland fire smoke on air quality and health is an issue growing in importance to many health officials across the country, as well as federal, state and local decision-makers. This webinar gives an overview of EPA’s tools and resources available to provide public…
Person: Long
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, public health, wildland fire, wildfire, EPA - Environmental Protection Agency, mitigation, air pollution, health risk

Next-generation biomass mapping for regional emissions and carbon inventories: incorporating uncertainty in wildland fuel characterization

Biomass mapping is used in variety of applications including carbon assessments, emission inventories, and wildland fire and fuel planning. Single values are often applied to individual pixels to represent biomass of classified vegetation, but each biomass estimate has…
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Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: C - carbon, biomass, remote sensing, uncertainty, wildland fuel, Canada, fire management

Predictive Services Tools Comparison, Alaska Fire Case Study, and Smoke Tools: 2019 Hot Topics from AFELU

The Advanced Fire Environment Learning Unit (AFELU) will host three speakers to talk about Predictive Services comparison tools (Robert Ziel, Alaska Fire Science Consortium), predicting fire behavior in Alaska (Chris Moore, Alaska Fire Service), and smoke tools (Pete Lahm, US…
Person: Ziel, Moore, Lahm
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: drought, landscape flammability, precipitation, NDVI - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, PDI - Palmer Drought Index, FSPro - Fire Spread Probability, 2019 fire season, acres burned, ERC - Energy Release Component, wildfires, air quality, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, BlueSky

Spatially-explicit Climate Forcings from Wildfire across the ABoVE Domain

Wildfires in the boreal forests and peatlands of the ABoVE domain are a natural disturbance agent, but are increasing in frequency and severity. Boreal forest fires impart relatively large forcings on the climate system as a result of (i) typically high severity fires that emit…
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Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: climate forcing, albedo, Canada, boreal forest fires, forest fire carbon emission, C - carbon, carbon emissions, ABoVE - NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, burned area, remote sensing, climate change

Implications of Peat Burn Severity on C Emissions and Post-fire Successional Trajectories in Boreal Northwest Territories, Canada

Our study aimed to integrate remote sensing, spatial analysis, and field data to understand the vulnerability and resiliency of peatlands and uplands to wildfire across the southern Northwest Territories study area where peatlands are abundant, including these objectives: • Map…
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Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: burn severity, fire severity, successional trajectory, ABoVE - NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, Canada, carbon emissions, C - carbon, peatlands, remote sensing, post-fire succession, boreal region

The Basics of Satellite Data for Smoke and Fire

"The Basics of Satellite Data for Smoke and Fire" is presented in two parts for a total of about 16 minutes. These videos introduce concepts such as the distinction between polar-orbiting and polar-stationary satellites, descriptions of satellite instrumentation to collect smoke…
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Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: satellite data, HAQAST - Health and Air Quality Applied Science Team, smoke forecasting, satellite imagery

Mapping modeled exposure of wildland fire smoke for human health studies in California

Wildland fire smoke exposure affects a broad proportion of the U.S. population and is increasing due to climate change, settlement patterns and fire seclusion. Significant public health questions surrounding its effects remain, including the impact on cardiovascular disease and…
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Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildland fire, air quality, exposure, PM - particulate matter, geospatial analysis, public health, chemical transport model, atmospheric modeling, epidemiology

Development of a smoke dispersion forecast system for Korean forest fires

Smoke from forest fires is a growing concern in Korea as forest structures have changed and become more vulnerable to fires associated with climate change. In this study, we developed a Korean forest fire smoke dispersion prediction (KFSDP) system to support smoke management in…
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Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: forest fire, smoke dispersion, Gaussian plume model, forecast system, Korea, GIS - geographic information system, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, PM10, fuel loading

North American Wildland Fuels Database (NAWFD)

The North American Wildland Fuels Database (NAWFD) data access application was developed to enable best practices for modeling national- and regional-scale fire emissions by incorporating uncertainty into fuels estimates. NAWFD aggregates fuel loading information from 26,620…
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Year: 2019
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: database, fuel loading, fuel strata, live fuels, CWD - coarse woody debris, fine woody debris, forest floor fuels, EVT - existing vegetation type

A national burden assessment of estimated pediatric asthma emergency department visits that may be attributed to elevated ozone levels associated with the presence of smoke

Asthma is the most common pediatric disease in the USA. It has been consistently demonstrated that asthma symptoms are exacerbated by exposure to ozone. Ozone (O3) is a secondary pollutant produced when volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are oxidized in the atmosphere in the…
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Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Safety
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: O3 - ozone, air quality, asthma, burden assessment, hazard map, VOC - volatile organic compounds, EOAS - elevated ozone associated with smoke

Machine learning-based integration of high-resolution wildfire smoke simulations and observations for regional health impact assessment

Large wildfires are an increasing threat to the western U.S. In the 2017 fire season, extensive wildfires occurred across the Pacific Northwest (PNW). To evaluate public health impacts of wildfire smoke, we integrated numerical simulations and observations for regional fire…
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Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: smoke modeling, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, air pollution, air quality, health impact assessment, public health, machine learning, data fusion

Present-day vegetation in the northern Rocky Mountains

The present-day northern Rocky Mountain vegetation is the product of a long history of geologic and climatic events that have interacted with the species populations composing the regional flora. General concepts relating to the organization, classification, and dynamic nature…
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Mapping, Fire History
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, agriculture, Agropyron spicatum, air quality, Artemisia tridentata, biogeography, bogs, British Columbia, Canada, Colorado, community ecology, coniferous forests, cover, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Festuca idahoensis, fire adaptations (plants), fire regimes, fire suppression, geology, glaciers, grasslands, grazing, histories, Idaho, introduced species, invasive species, Larix occidentalis, logging, marshes, mining, Montana, montane forests, mosses, mountains, national forests, national parks, old growth forests, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus flexilis, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, Populus tremuloides, prairies, riparian habitats, shrublands, subalpine forests, swamps, Thuja plicata, topography, Tsuga heterophylla, tundra, Utah, vegetation surveys, water, water quality, wetlands, wind, Wyoming

Smoke and air resource management-peering through the haze

This paper presents a vision of the future rooted in consideration of the past 20 years in the smoke and air resource management field. This future is characterized by rapid technological development of computers for computation, communications, and remote sensing capabilities…
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: GIS - geographic information system, smoke management