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From the Summary...'Managing smoke in ways that prevent serious impact to sensitive areas from single burns or multiple burns occurring simultaneously requires knowledge of the weather conditions that will affect smoke emissions, trajectories, and dispersion. Not only is it…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, biomass, cover, lakes, moisture, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, storms, temperature, topography, weather observations, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
From the text...'In summary, the enormous wildland/urban interface and dense road network located in a region where up to six million acres of wildlands per year are subject to prescribed fire combine to make problem smoke the foremost land management-related air quality problem…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, cover type, fire frequency, Florida, Georgia, GIS, Piedmont, pine forests, plant growth, precipitation, roads, rural communities, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, topography, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wind
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement new regulations for the management of atmospheric particulate matter 2.5 Fm and less in diameter (PM2.5), tropospheric ozone, and regional haze in the next few years. These three air quality issues relate…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, combustion, education, fire management, gases, health factors, human caused fires, ozone, particulates, pollution, public information, remote sensing, site treatments, smoke management, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
The 1997 Indonesia forest fires was an environmental disaster of exceptional proportions. Such a disaster caused massive transboundary air pollution and indiscriminate destruction of biodiversity in the world. The immediate consequence of the fires was the production of large…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, biomass, droughts, fire intensity, gases, climate change, health factors, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, savannas, seasonal activities, Singapore, smoke effects, smoke management, Southeast Asia, species diversity, storms, Sumatra, tropical forests, wildfires, wind
The role of climate and natural disturbance in the past provides a context for understanding present and future changes in biota. The vegetation history of the Yellowstone region, like that of North America as a whole, is largely one of plant invasions and extinctions in…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Acer spp., biogeography, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, Castanea dentata, charcoal, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, fire regimes, forest management, fossils, hardwood forests, introduced species, invasive species, Juniperus occidentalis, Juniperus osteosperma, landscape ecology, Larix laricina, Larrea tridentata, paleoecology, Picea abies, Picea engelmannii, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pinus monophylla, pioneer species, plant communities, plant diseases, pollen, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, succession, temperature, Tsuga canadensis, wildfires, Yellowstone National Park
New methods for retrieving tropospheric ozone column depth and absorbing aerosol (smoke and dust) from the Earth Probe—Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (EP/TOMS) are used to follow pollution and to determine interannual variability and trends. During intense fires over Indonesia…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, biomass, dust, ENSO, fire intensity, GIS, India, Indonesia, Oceania, ozone, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Acer saccharinum, Betula papyrifera, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, cover type conversion, distribution, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO, fire adaptations (plants), fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, forest management, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, ignition, insects, land management, land use, landscape ecology, nutrient cycling, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus resinosa, plant diseases, Populus grandidentata, Populus tremuloides, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus alba, Thuja occidentalis, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, wildfires
Predicted daily fluxes from an ecosystem model for water, carbon dioxide, and methane were compared with 1994 and 1996 Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) field measurements at sites dominated by old black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) (OBS) and boreal fen vegetation…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, ecosystem modeling, black spruce, BOREAS - Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study, Manitoba, methane flux, CO2 flux, NPP - net primary production, boreal fen vegetation
Forestry, conservation, wildfire risk reduction, and agricultural uses of planned or prescribed fires as a tool for meeting the needs of wildland managers are increasingly in collision at the air pollution control and climate change cross-roads. The inevitable conflict resulting…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air pollution, clouds, Canada, Ontario, aerosols, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, climatology, conservation, fire case histories, fire management, fire weather, firing techniques, land management, particulates, pollution, precipitation, size classes, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Direct emissions of carbon from Canadian forest fires were estimated for all Canada and for each ecozone for the period 1959-1999. The estimates were based on a database of large fires for the country and calculations of fuel consumption for each fire using the Canadian Forest…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, fuel consumption, carbon emissions, carbon sink, taiga, air quality, arthropods, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, climatology, coniferous forests, crown fires, deciduous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire danger rating, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire size, fire suppression, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, gases, insects, particulates, pine forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, post-fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, season of fire, statistical analysis, succession, wildfires
Between June and November 2000, fourteen focus groups were held in four selected sites to elicit and document the range of perspectives, concepts and lexicon for discussing fire management and fuel treatment. Scales for fuel treatment acceptance factors such as fire knowledge,…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: public opinion, aesthetics, air quality, catastrophic fires, climatology, conservation, coniferous forests, cutting, deforestation, drought, education, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firebreak, flammability, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel management, grasses, grazing, herbicide, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, Lake States, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, Michigan, moisture, national forests, national parks, nutrients, pine forests, plantations, post-fire recovery, precipitation, private lands, public information, recreation, regulations, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, Sierra Nevada, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, species diversity, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species, understory vegetation, wind, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
This study outlines the development of an approach to evaluate the sources, sinks, and magnitudes of greenhouse gas emissions from a grazed semiarid rangeland dominated by mulga (Acacia aneura) and how these emissions may be altered by changes in management. This paper describes…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Acacia aneura, air quality, Australia, C - carbon, European settlement, fire management, fire suppression, gases, climate change, grazing, greenhouse gases, land management, population density, Queensland, range management, rangelands, statistical analysis, suppression, wildfires, climate change, greenhouse, woodlands, grasslands, C - carbon, grazing
The impact of the Central American fires on PM2.5 mass concentration and composition in the Tennessee Valley region during portions of May, 1998, has been quantified. Elevated concentrations of smoke aerosol tracers -- fine potassium, (and to a lesser extent, calcium and silicon…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Alabama, biomass, calcium, C - carbon, Central America, dust, Kentucky, Mexico, particulates, photography, K - potassium, remote sensing, smoke effects, smoke management, Tennessee, wildfires, wind, PM2.5 mass, long distance transport, Central American fires, fine particle standards, potassium tracer of biomass combustion
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Amazon, biogeochemical cycles, Brazil, C - carbon, deforestation, distribution, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO, evapotranspiration, flammability, forest fragmentation, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, human caused fires, land management, land use, land use planning, logging, roads, savannas, smoke effects, South America, tropical forests
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: adaptation, biogeochemical cycles, Blue Mountains, C - carbon, coniferous forests, disturbance, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, floods, forest management, fragmentation, gases, climate change, mosaic, Oregon, Pinus ponderosa, population ecology, statistical analysis, topography, Washington, wildfires
The Mortar Creek Fire burned 26 000 ha of mixed-conifer Rocky Mountain forest in July-August 1979. Changes in burn stream conditions were examined relative to reference streams for various ecological factors on two to six occasions, from October 1979 to August 1980. Factors…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, algae, Betula occidentalis, C - carbon, charcoal, coniferous forests, disturbance, drainage, fire case histories, hydrology, Idaho, invertebrates, leaves, litter, nutrients, organic matter, particulates, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus ponderosa, Populus, Populus tremuloides, K - potassium, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, runoff, Salix, sampling, seasonal activities, sedimentation, statistical analysis, storms, streams, water, water quality, watershed management, watersheds, wilderness areas, wildfires