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With rising temperatures, future droughts and subsequent extreme fire weather forecasted, how will management, carbon storage and emissions and fire severity interact?
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: CFSC - California Fire Science Consortium, C - carbon, climate change, extreme fire weather, fire exclusion, fire management, NEE - net ecosystem exchange, Sierra Nevada
Smoke cued germination occurs in an incredible diversity of plants in widely separated, fire-prone Mediterranean Climate Ecosystems around the world. This research suggests that convergent evolution might be the explaination.
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: CFSC - California Fire Science Consortium, pyroendemic plants, germination, Mediterranean climate, fire-prone ecosystem
Coarse woody debris is a key terrestrial carbon pool, and its turnover through fire plays a fundamental role in global carbon cycling. Coarse dead wood fuel properties, which vary between tree species and wood decay stages, might affect its combustion, consumption and carbon gas…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: carbon cycling, greenhouse gas, plant species, wood combustion, wood decomposition, wood density, CWD - coarse woody debris, Netherlands, laboratory fires
Scientists this summer are taking to the air in an ambitious effort to better understand the chemistry, behavior, and health impacts of wildfire smoke. The flights in an instrument-packed C-130 airplane belonging to the National Science Foundation will be followed in 2019 by…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: health impacts, chemistry
The energy flow from a wildland fire is the most important measurable physical quantity. If we understand the time history of the energy flows, we can derive all other fire behavior and fire effects parameters. Dr. Bob Kremens will describe the difficulties in measuring the…
Person: Kremens
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: radiant heat, radiant energy, convection, radiation, fuel consumption, wildfires, conduction, thermal energy, energy transport
PM2.5, or fine particulate matter, is a category of air pollutant consisting of particles with effective aerodynamic diameter equal to or less than 2.5 microns. These particles have been linked to human health impacts as well as regional haze, visibility, and climate change…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, cost, satellite, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, human health, haze, visibility
Wildfires are a major source of air pollutants in the United States. Wildfire smoke can trigger severe pollution episodes with substantial impacts on public health. In addition to acute episodes, wildfires can have a marginal effect on air quality at significant distances from…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: wildfires, wildland fire, air pollutants, public health, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MTBS - Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, NDVI - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, burned area
We examine the 2002 Yakutsk wildfire event and simulate the impacts of smoke aerosols on local radiative energy budget, using the WRF-Chem-SMOKE model. When comparing satellite retrievals (the Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) dataset) with model simulations, we found that the…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: BBA - biomass burning aerosol, WRF-Chem-SMOKE model, Yakutsk fire, boreal forest, FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, clouds
These presentations highlight existing wildfire forecasting tools, especially resources that can be used by communities to aid in preparedness efforts. Speakers discuss existing tools and provide examples of their use in communities or their potential applications if not…
Person: Stuefer, Starkweather, Brubaker
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: emissions and smoke, fire forecasting, smoke detection
This data publication contains emission factors for 195 gaseous and particulate compounds measured during the burning of three mixtures of manzanita wood and low-density polyethylene plastic (LDPE, agricultural plastic) in a laboratory. The mixtures consisted of 2 kilograms (kg…
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Year: 2018
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: polyethylene, manzanita, plastic, farming, biota, environment, human impact, health, forest products, wood chemistry, natural resource management, forest management, plants, San Bernardino National Forest
These data include time lapse JPEG and CR2 format photographs, taken every 5 seconds, as well as MTS videos from burns of the 2012 Prescribed Fire Combustion and Atmospheric Dynamics Research Experiment (RxCADRE) at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Images are provided from five…
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Year: 2018
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biota, environment, plume, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, RxCADRE, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
This project provided an integrated assessment of the effects of fires under different future climate and population scenarios on fine particulate matter mass (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) at global scale, with a particular focus on the United States. We employed the global Community…
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Year: 2018
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climatology, climate change, meteorology, atmosphere, natural resource management, model simulations, area burned, air quality, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, global, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter
We are conducting a three-year study with funding from the Joint Fire Science Program to understand policy barriers to applying prescribed fire on US Forest Service and BLM lands across the 11 western states. Our goals are to investigate current barriers and identify…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: fire policy, air quality, burn window
The Smoke Science Plan (SSP) was built upon personal interviews and an extensive web-based needs identification with scientists, fire managers, and air quality managers using online questionnaires (Riebau and Fox 2010a, 2010b). It is structured around four themes, which are…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, model validation, climate change, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
AICC Predictive Services meteorologist Heidi Strader provides an outlook for the 2018 fire season in Alaska and reviews the projects that Predictive Services staff have been involved in over the winter to improve their results. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Operations Meeting.
Person: Strader
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: weather prediction, precipitation, winter precipitation, snowpack, temperature, fire season, acres burned, remote sensing, NASA DEVELOP, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, NASA SPoRT, smoke modeling, AKFF - Alaska Fire and Fuels, WFAS - Wildland Fire Assessment System
AFSC fire ecologist Randi Jandt reviews the most recent evidence on how wildfire smoke affects human health, including the health of firefighters. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Person: Jandt
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: health effects, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, PM10, respirator, VOC - volatile organic carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, respiratory disease, air quality, firefighter safety
The capacity of wildland fire science and technology in Canada is not keeping pace with the growing complexity of wildland fire. Fire seasons are becoming longer, fire events are becoming more severe, and experts predict that the area burned on an annual basis could double by…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, public safety, fire science, wildland fire, Indigenous knowledge, fire management, resilience, fire research
Radar and satellite observations document the evolution of a destructive fire‐generated vortex during the Carr fire on 26 July 2018 near Redding, California. The National Weather Service estimated that surface wind speeds in the vortex were in excess of 64 m/s, equivalent to an…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire plumes, vortex, wildfires, pyrotornado, pyrocumulonimbus, tornado, Carr Fire
U.S. EPA researchers are using an innovative smoke combustion system in a laboratory in Research Triangle Park, NC, to study the toxicity of smoke from fires in controlled conditions. The studies are showing the potential health effects of smoke from different burned wood and…
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Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: toxicity, health impacts
Acute and chronic exposure to wildfire smoke can cause numerous documented cardiopulmonary effects, although determining the casual components within the thousands of different chemicals found in both the particle and gas phases remains a toxicological challenge. Specifically,…
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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: wildland fires, PM - particulate matter, emission factor, smoldering, flaming, biomass smoke, biomass fuel, inhalation, toxicity, health effects
Short-term exposures to ambient particulate matter (PM) are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in the exposed population, and these same patterns have been noted during wildland fire episodes. Since the scale and frequency of wildfires are expected to increase…
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Year: 2018
Type: Project
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, public health, toxicity, aerosols
Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a report on the effects of a fire season on fire fighters.
Person: Coker
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: firefighter safety, lipids, adipose tissue, fitness, stressors, skeletal muscle
Fires play an important role in the terrestrial biosphere carbon cycle, not only through direct carbon release but also contributing to a potential long‐term storage as pyrogenic carbon (PyC). PyC is formed through fires, and, because it may resist further biological and…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: carbon cycle, CO2 - carbon dioxide, carbon sinks, PyC - pyrogenic carbon
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation introduced the project on carbon cost analysis and feedback.
Person: Rogers, Phillips
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: carbon emissions, climate change, climate feedbacks, fire suppression
Wildfires inject large amounts of black carbon (BC) particles into the atmosphere, which can reach the lowermost stratosphere (LMS) and cause strong radiative forcing. During a 14-month period of observations on board a passenger aircraft flying between Europe and North America…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: black carbon, biomass burning, climate change, high altitude, aerosol mixing state