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Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, firebreaks, Illinois, manuals, Melilotus albus, prairies, season of fire, seed germination, weed control

Observation shows that three types of horizontal vortices may form during intense wildland fires. Two of these vortices are longitudinal relative to the ambient wind and the third is transverse. One of the longitudinal types, a vortex pair, occurs with extreme heat and low to…
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Southwest, International
Keywords: Arizona, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, Europe, field experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebrands, flame length, France, fuel types, heat, heat effects, heavy fuels, ignition, laboratory fires, Michigan, Minnesota, mountains, national forests, Nevada, Pinus edulis, rate of spread, slash, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, vortices, wilderness areas, wildfires, wind, Wisconsin

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Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, Georgia, humidity, particulates, smoke management, wildfires, wind

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Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Florida, public information, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, Oregon, particulates, slash

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Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, aerial ignition, Australia, bark, combustion, droughts, eucalyptus, European settlement, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fuel accumulation, fuel appraisal, heat, presettlement fires, wildfires, wind

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Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: ash, biomass, chemical elements, combustion, coniferous forests, duff, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire injuries (plants), flammability, heat effects, Larix occidentalis, lightning caused fires, litter, mineral soils, moisture, Montana, mortality, overstory, peat fires, Picea engelmannii, Pinus banksiana, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, sampling, smoke management, soil moisture

Fires in croplands, plantations, and rangelands contribute significantly to fire emissions in the United States, yet are often overshadowed by wildland fires in efforts to develop inventories or estimate responses to climate change. Here we quantified decadal trends, interannual…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: cropland fires, fire regimes, wildfires, air quality, climate change, plantations, remote sensing, fire management, range management, croplands, rangelands, agriculture, air quality, carbon cycle, wildfire, aerosols

Smoke from forest fires is a serious and increasing land management concern. However, a paucity of information exists that is specific to public perceptions of smoke. This study used conjoint analysis, a multivariate technique, to evaluate how four situational factors (i.e.,…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Southern
Keywords: fire danger rating, lightning caused fires, smoke behavior, smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, health factors, public information, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Texas, fire management, forest management, smoke management, tolerance, preference, warning, public, health

From the text ... ''GIS and mapping tools are playing an ever-increasing role in our day-to-day work. We use GIS and mapping tools for fuels treatment planning and monitoring as well as for communication and record keeping. We also utilize many models that incorporate both our…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Intelligence, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: prescribed fires (escaped), wildfires, GIS, Noble, C, Florida, fire management, forest management

During a prescribed fire experiment, CO2 and particle number concentrations, light scattering and absorption coefficients were measured from a Cessna 172 airplane. Peak number concentrations were (3 ± 1) x 106 cm-3 and they decreased faster than what can be explained by…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: experimental fires, smoke behavior, aerosols, carbon dioxide, particulates, slash, Finland, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, boreal forests

Post-fire predictions of forest recovery under future climate change and management actions are necessary for forest managers to make decisions about treatments. We applied the Climate-Forest Vegetation Simulator (Climate-FVS), a new version of a widely used forest management…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: fire intensity, post-fire recovery, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, deforestation, national forests, population density, regeneration, sprouting, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Arizona, fire management, forest management, FVS - Forest Vegetation Simulator, simulation, GCMs - general circulation models, post-fire

This paper presents observational results of wind and plume thermodynamic structures measured during low-intensity subcanopy fires. In-situ meteorological data were collected during the two experiments in the Calloway Forest in North Carolina during the early spring 2010 and…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backing fires, experimental fires, headfires, low intensity burns, smoke behavior, surface fires, air quality, overstory, temperature, wind, Aristida stricta, wiregrass, Ilex glabra, gallberry, Picoides borealis, red-cockaded woodpecker, Pinus palustris, longleaf pine, Quercus laurifolia, turkey oak, North Carolina, fire management, forest management, pine hardwood forests, canopy flow, fire-atmosphere interactions, heat flux, low-intensity fire, plume rise

Fire frequency for below historic norms is threatening eastern oak ecosystem integrity. Increasingly, private family forest landowners are interested in using prescribed fire as a tool for maintaining oak dominance and associated wildlife habitat and wildfire protection. The…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire frequency, prescribed fires (escaped), smoke effects, air quality, private lands, Quercus, oak, Illinois, fire management, land management, range management, wildlife habitat management, hardwood forests, rangelands, community forestry, land management, family forest, Quercus

Mercury stored in forests can be volatilized to the atmosphere during fires. Many factors influence this process such as mercury concentration, vegetation loading and the soil temperature reached during the fire. We quantified mercury emissions from biomass and soil during a…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, Hg - mercury, soil temperature, Amazon, Brazil, South America, fire management, forest management, soil management, rainforests, forest fire, mercury emissions, Amazon

Question: What is the impact of the fire cues smoke and ash on seed germination of important functional groups in the heathland system, namely ericads, herbs and graminoids? We predict that if germination from heathland seed banks is in part regulated by fire cues, there should…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: human caused fires, smoke effects, ash, conservation, grasses, seed dormancy, seed germination, succession, Norway, Europe, fire management, range management, heathlands, anthropogenic disturbance, conservation management, heathland ecology, seed bank, succession

Fires are becoming more violent and frequent resulting in major economic losses and long-lasting effects on communities and ecosystems; thus, efficient fire monitoring is becoming a necessity. A novel triple multi-sensor approach was developed for monitoring and studying the…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: field experimental fires, chemistry, photography, Greece, Europe, fire management, smoke management, outdoors fire, field chemical analysis, volatiles, thermographic video analysis, acoustical analysis

10 Minutes is an interview series where the Southern Fire Exchange talks with experts, leaders, and sages in southern wildland fire management and research. In this interview, the SFE speaks with Gary Curcio, a North Carolina based smoke and fire behavior expert with IPA Fire…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire management

Superfog is a very dense fog with visibility less than 10 feet and often less than 3 feet. It is the extreme condition of increased fog density associated with specific atmospheric and weather conditions. In the Southeast, superfog events have resulted in multiple tragic motor…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke dispersion, superfog

Wildfire is on the rise. The United States is witnessing a spectacular increase in acres lost to catastrophic wildfires, a phenomenon fed by the generally hotter and dryer conditions associated with climate change. In addition to losses in lives, property, and natural resources…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, natural fire

Smoke management has become one of the leading challenges facing prescribed fire practitioners in the Southeast and the continued use of prescribed fire in the region may depend on effective smoke and emission mitigation practices. While not a comprehensive list of smoke…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke dispersion

A modeling system has been developed to predict accurately the downwind air quality impacts of prescribed burns. The system has been evaluated in applications to monitored burns and a long-range smoke event detected by the regional PM2.5 monitoring network in Southeastern USA.…
Person:
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, PM2.5, air quality impacts

Airborne measuremens of trace gases and particles in the smoke from a prescribed burn of forest products in the Los Angeles basin show significantly higher emissions of NOx, SO2, and particulate NO3 than do measurements in smokes from the burning of biomass in rural areas. It is…
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: chamise, Adenostoma fasciculatum, Ceanothus crassifolius, black sagebrush, nitrogen emissions, sulfur emissions, Salvia mellifera, sumac, Rhus laurina

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…
Person:
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

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Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: smoke measurements, emission factors, LODI test fires