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The smoke management plan (SMP) sets in place best management practices to limit impacts on air quality and smoke sensitive areas before, during, and after burning. The guide is also designed to provide educational material and references for proper smoke management across the…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
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Wildland fire emissions cause adverse cardiopulmonary outcomes, yet controlled exposure studies to characterize health impacts of specific biomass sources have been complicated by the often latent effects of air pollution. The aim of this study was to determine if postprandial…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air pollution, exposure, cardiovascular, metabolic rate, health, health impacts, peat fires
Background: The increasing size and frequency of wildland fires are leading to greater potential for cardiopulmonary disease and cancer in exposed populations; however, little is known about how the types of fuel and combustion phases affect these adverse outcomes. Objectives:…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, flaming, smoldering, cancer, public health, lung diseases
Austrostipa compressa, a native ephemeral of southwest Western Australia was stimulated to germinate under a range of temperatures, in the presence of light, and exposure to smoke-water. This combination of environmental cues results in winter-maximum germination in immediate…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire intensity, heat effects, smoke effects, wildfires, disturbance, grasses, introduced species, light, population density, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, soil temperature, temperature, Ehrharta, Poaceae, western Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, soil management, Mediterranean habitats, disturbance, heat shock, light, reserve management, soil seed bank, temperature
The chemical composition and size of individual particles derived from combustion products of several species found in Southern California were obtained using aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The major inorganic species observed in >90% of all biomass burning…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California
Keywords: biomass burning, smoke effects, aerosols, air quality, chemical compounds, particulates, K - potassium, southern California, fire management, smoke management, chaparral
1. The South and Middle American tropics contain the world's largest area of moist savanna. Despite an apparent uniformity in appearance, floristic groupings can be detected and four zones are provisionally outlined with a number of characteristic plants.2. Although currect…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, biogeography, biomass, Brazil, Central America, cerrado, deciduous forests, drainage, Europe, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, grasslands, land use, Mexico, mosaic, paleoecology, range management, reproduction, savannas, scrub, soil nutrients, South America, species diversity (plants), temperature, topography, neotropical savannas, biogeographical zones, cerrados, plant diversity, palaeoecology, topography, drainage, soil nutrients
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Year: 1999
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: Borneo, Indonesia, light, logging, photography, rainforests, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires
From the text (p.122) ... 'In recent years, the debate over Indian fire has continued in the context of discussions of the Wilderness Act of 1964. It is basically a dispute over whether or not Indian fires were a 'natural' form of fire management and, if they were not, whether…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Canada, Ceanothus, chaparral, coniferous forests, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, evolution, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, histories, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, land management, lightning, lightning caused fires, mammals, mosaic, Native Americans, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, prairies, presettlement fires, Quercus, range management, rangelands, scrub, season of fire, seed germination, seedlings, succession, understory vegetation, wilderness areas, wildlife, SMOKE SIGNALS
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: ash, Asia, crown scorch, Europe, fire management, flame length, France, Italy, Japan, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires, wind
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, cellulose, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, coniferous forests, Eucalyptus dalrympleana, fire intensity, fuel types, grasses, grasslands, hydrocarbons, Lolium, Oregon, particulates, sampling, smoke management, soot, Tsuga mertensiana, vegetation surveys
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, agriculture, air quality, arid regions, biomass, deforestation, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, humidity, population density, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, statistical analysis, vegetation surveys, wildfires
Four conditions are necessary for fire to assume ecological importance: 1) an accumulation of organic matter, i.e. fuel either herbaceous or woody, sufficient enough to burn; 2) dry weather conditions to render the material combustible; 3) a landscape conducive to the spread of…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, relative humidity, winds, fuel moisture, smoke management, fire frequency, fire season
Mitigating smoke impacts on human health and safety is one of the challenges that landowners and agencies face when conducting prescribed burns. Particulate matter (PM) in smoke, produced by the combustion of fuels during burning, can aggravate respiratory ailments and reduce…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke impacts, human health, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, BlueSky
Wildfire is the most prevalent natural disturbance in boreal forests, and impacts climate through biogeochemical (e.g., greenhouse gas emission from biomass burning) and biophysical (e.g., albedo (α), evapotranspiration (ET), roughness) processes. We used satellite observations…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Siberia, boreal forests, biomass burning, greenhouse gas emissions, satellite observations, evapotranspiration, albedo, LST - Land Surface Temperature
The promoting effect of smoke-derived chemicals (e.g. karrikinolide and cyanohydrin) on germination in many plants from Mediterranean-type ecosystems such as South Africa and south-western Australia is well documented. However, very little is known about 1) the relative…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: South Africa, Africa, Australia, germination, karrikinolide, cyanohydrins, annuals, chemicals, seedling growth, Mediterranean basin
This study quantifies ammonia (NH3) emissions from biomass burning from 2005 to 2015 across the continental US (CONUS) and compares emissions from biomass burning with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Emissions Inventory (NEI), the Fire Inventory from the…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: ammonia, wildfires, biomass burning, NEI - National Emissions Inventory, area burned, fire frequency
The Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED)-currently by far the most widely used global fire emissions inventory-is primarily driven by the 500 m MODIS MCD64A1 burned area (BA) product. This product is unable to detect many smaller fires, and the new v4.1s of GFED addresses this…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, burned area, active fires, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, Sentinel-2, Landsat, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, China, India
Coarse woody debris (>0.6 cm in diameter) is an important component of the fuel complex in Australian eucalypt forests, influencing both fire behaviour, smoke production and post-fire ecological processes. We investigated how physical characteristics of woody fuel affected…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: CWD - coarse woody debris, Australia, fuel consumption, fuel ignition
Wildfires can impair human health because of the toxicity of emitted pollutants, and threaten communities, structures and the integrity of ecosystems sensitive to disturbance. Climate and socioeconomic factors (e.g. population and income growth) are known regional drivers of…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: socioeconomic changes, wildfires, human health, air quality, annual area burned
Smouldering peat fires, the largest fires on Earth in terms of fuel consumption, are reported in six continents and are responsible for regional haze episodes. Haze is the large-scale accumulation of smoke at low altitudes in the atmosphere. It decreases air quality, disrupts…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: smoldering, peat fires, emission factor, MCE - modified combustion efficiency, wildfires, haze, air quality, PM - particulate matter, literature review
The increasing regional and global impact of wildfires on the environment, and particularly on the human population, is becoming a focus of the research community. Both fire behaviour and smoke dispersion models are now underpinning strategic and tactical fire management by many…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, eucalypt, fine fuels, CWD - coarse woody debris, C - carbon, fuel loading, CABLE
During the summer of 2017, several megafires in South-Central Chile burned down forest plantations, native forests, shrublands and human settlements. National authorities identified the relevant effects of the wildfires on infrastructure and ecosystems. However, other indirect…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire impacts, air pollution, natural hazards, risk assessment, ecosystem services, ecosystems, Chile, fire severity, megafires, air quality, PM - particulate matter, Landsat, ASTER - Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
Pre-season climate and weather variables indicate a moderate to high chance of a near average wildfire season in Washington and an above average season for Oregon. During this webinar, we’ll explore the factors that make up this outlook, define what a normal fire season looks…
Person: Clark
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: 2018 fire season, fire severity, fire forecasting, rainfall, snowpack, fire potential, fire regimes
A large concentration of finer particulate matter (PM2.5), the primary air-quality concern in northern peninsular Southeast Asia (PSEA), is believed to be closely related to large amounts of biomass burning (BB) particularly in the dry season. In order to quantitatively estimate…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Thailand, PM2.5, biomass burning, urban, haze, radiative effects, air quality, aerosols
Burnt area is a critical parameter for estimating emissions of greenhouse gases associated with biomass burning. Several burnt area products (BAPs) derived from Earth Observation satellites/sensors have been released; these are based on different spatial resolutions and derived…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, burnt area, remote sensing, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, greenhouse gases